wuthering widdershins

From Rerooted: rediscover the roots of everyday words



Collaborative piecemeal poem featuring my fantastic makeshift group of 5: The most surprising thing about this ~10 minute brainstorm and integration exercise was just how amazing the final poem ended up flowing!



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the day feels like wa

the earth's crust is on fire

and yet, here we

are. human

in the knowing that nature always wins

it's all wa



a fat old man who doesn't give a damn

about anything on the land

a deformed rabbit

rumbles, rushing, rumping, running, ruling

fate fumbles, and fate falls, so fabulously



as a child I dreamed about the day I would

travel through coruscate

I can hear the songs

they sing



as a child I knew a bumfuzzle who would

always yell at me for playing too close to his lawn

a shushing silence sweeps over me as my

heart withers away from your shivering words

a hollowness that covers my entire body



yet my bumfuzzle grew to love my playing

and I his yelling

but love is love is love, or is it a rose?

he bit my lip. I couldn't quite tell if

it was intentional



it drew blood

I liked it

I never want to witness coruscate

as this will be the end 



to bloom, to love, with millions of little vibrations



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Appendix

Everything below this point is based on the exercise prompts that Lauren gave us — from the random word pulled, to using particular sounds or sentences, and the 10-minute flash poem I constructed.



wid·der·shins

adverb (Scottish)

definition: in a direction contrary to the sun's course, considered as unlucky; counterclockwise."she danced widdershins around him"



poem: 

a shushing silence sweeps over me as my

heart withers away from your shivering words

a hollowness that covers my entire body



like a weighted blanket that offers no warmth

only shivers through my spine

down to my shins



as a child I didn't believe

that widdershins could ever affect me

that I would also feel full



I shudder at the thought

of running empty for good



yet my relationship

with widdershins

seems to be constantly

widening

I want to come to a point

where I can always open



Published by Sam (samwong) 11 months ago on Friday the 9th of June 2023.

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