Using any element* of the objects you were given and beginning with one of these lines (though you can start with your own beginning instead, if you'd prefer) write a poem of ten lines or more.
The elements* of the objects can be anything from what they resemble in more "real" terms, to just a part of them: color or shape or taste or the concept behind them, the scene in which you might originally find them.
If there hadn't been _____________ we could recall____________
We asked of the _________ only this:
If the stars had asked us, we would have said
If the stars had asked us,
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are sugar crystals that melt
on the tongue of angels.
By angels I meant an Italian
artist's dream of skin of opals
and cheeks like the pouches
of treasure we draw up with cord
and hang close to our bodies.
I never meant the Blue Angels,
the clear, cloudless afternoon
and the gamble of Pensacola,1958
that deadly afternoon
when a man whose name
reminds me of both glass
and glow and the empty house
he crashed into.
It isn't quartz to the eye,
the intricate designs made by
the flight he never made.
The emblem and his name
Glasgow, bent metal off
the Zippo inside the bent
metal of plane, piloted
by the man, one shiny blue
marble's remove away.
By way of quick example (ABOVE)
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