Poems
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open platforms closed secrets (homage to Miao Ying)
By Klare Lanson, Vacant Dragon à la Subverted LipsBlockage and initial contemplations are fixated here
The animated gifs shake true // privileging silence over sound
Contradictions between desire for globalisation
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Canned laughter
By Mary-Jane Duffy, Vacant Dragon à la Subverted LipsInterviewer: Welcome to the show. Judy, ah, I couldn’t help but notice that you are a very attractive young woman. What do you do for a living? Let me ask you something, [here comes the zinger] do you think I’m attractive?
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]
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Chance of a small royalty
By Emily XYZ, Vacant Dragon à la Subverted Lipsevery time the sirens howl in unison
the rescue dogs next door howl in unison
predicting who will be next howl in unison
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The Appointment
By Vacant Dragon à la Subverted Lips, Vidya RajanYou must sit.
You must attend.
And make the pledge.
Ensure you are certified. -
Making potatoes for dinner
By Eloise Grills, Vacant Dragon à la Subverted LipsI can never follow instructions, even or especially ones I set myself, like that I was going to make potatoes for dinner and write about it. As soon as I made that decision I could feel myself bucking against it. And last night this misgiving was confirmed when I found myself making ravioli instead. Or cooking store-bought ravioli, suspending it i… -
all the while, trying to start the engine
By Vacant Dragon à la Subverted Lips, Helen Franzmann(for Jupiter)
between waking and sleep, two switches flicker
connecting stop-starts from Life and Now -
I’m bored… but you like it, don’t you?
By Vacant Dragon à la Subverted Lips, Sawako NakayasuWhat if a film never reaches the screen because viewers walk away?
– Susan Howe
I don’t want to feel like a tourist. -
Your adventures may be tragic
By Carody Culver, Jackie Ryan, Vacant Dragon à la Subverted Lipsthis is the story of a journey
which begins at Mount Bartle Frere and ends at Pigeon Forge
a rollercoaster of attractions, fire and dirge
and believe me, you will definitely need something to get you dry -
Coridite is kept hidden in their minds
By Vacant Dragon à la Subverted LipsI’m going to go with this one here
the natural selection, placing smoke on a fork
is there a choice, or just oil on a rag?
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RISE — inaudibly, repeatedly
By Ian Gibbins, Vacant Dragon à la Subverted LipsOn Monday, they largely, chaotically
ANNOUNCE
ARREST
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You're Love One In Heaven Says Hi
By Vacant Dragon à la Subverted Lips, Laura Jean McKayIn the window across the way is a cloud.
I watch a bird fly through it.
Footnote: this poem was created using the Between-the-action constraint as the starting point.
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iron filings (after Liliane Lijn’s Solar Cutting)
By Vacant Dragon à la Subverted Lips, Liliane Lijnclouds reflect -18% light untrained
relationships shift -21% oil unanswered
radiowaves shrink -17% light uncontrollable
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where memory stops
By Sandra Selig, Vacant Dragon à la Subverted Lipshow ruffled you seem
you’ve taken all the poetry out of it, haven’t you?
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for Hansie
By Helen Franzmann, Vacant Dragon à la Subverted LipsI’ve often wondered about the
soft rumble that occurs when you laugh
washing you now I understand -
Throes
By Kate Lilley, Vacant Dragon à la Subverted LipsThis world is a ball – give it to me
or take it from me (if you can).
Quick, quicker, quickest,
all the parts of speech apply. -
The Shrine of Beauty
By Vacant Dragon à la Subverted Lips, Timmah BallFootnote: this poem was created using the Found Text constraint as the starting point.
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A Soft Grim Ace
By Jennifer Compton, Vacant Dragon à la Subverted LipsThis is an incontinent sonnet of independent means
and we all have dreams or do dreams have us?
Footnote: this poem was created using the Dreams or Memories constraint as the starting point.
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Your efforts are truly appreciated
By Dan Hogan, Vacant Dragon à la Subverted LipsThis permanent job has passed over to the other side
of austerity. Budgetary measures a perfect line of bugs.
To hug a short-term fiscal plan through the long cold night,
a terribly windowless must-have and must-do supersedes rest. -
Class war in the airport lounge
By Timmah Ball, Vacant Dragon à la Subverted Lips“The Power Elite”
were not just self-interested.
but sick.
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You are here. \\| /| I am here with you.
By Anna Jacobson, Vacant Dragon à la Subverted Lipsthe yoga mat is missing from its rolled-up place
what that entails, and what comes after
it returns unchanged
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