a cento list-poem of lines lifted from ❀

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

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sources

•  1. balloons
•  2. kindness
•  3. fever 103°
•  4. poppies in july
•  5. the other
•  6. elm
•  7. an appearance
•  8. little fugue
•  9. black rook in rainy weather
• 10. heavy woman
• 11. who
• 12. ouija
• 13. spinster