a cento list-poem of lines lifted from ❀

• starry metals
• my Japanese silks, desperate butterflies
• Isadora's scarves
• little hell flames
  • little bloody skirts!
• Sulfurous adulteries grieve in a dream.
• tin-white, like arsenic
  • those pale irretrievables
  • snaky acids hiss
• ampersands and percent signs exit like kisses
• black yew, white cloud
• whatever angel may choose to flare
• dusk hoods them in Mary-blue
• they bloom upside down
• the rotten queen with saffron hair
• reel giddy in bedlam spring

sources

• balloons
• kindness
• fever 103°
• poppies in july
• the other
• elm
• an appearance
• little fugue
• black rook in rainy weather
• heavy woman
• who
• ouija
• spinster