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Abusive Escape MAG
December 22, 2016
Here another blushes
(exquisite, imaginable)
Spirit of age blowing
Upon her cheeks
Age blew
Before the husband
Excuse her sex
(in dispute)
The irregular life
(she imagines)
Has been lived before
The color could be
Resumed
The spirit of age
Lay dormant
Then the bosom
(locket: relic of affection)
Sea-stained
Blood-stained
Travel-stained
Leaving a muddled, demented bosom
Oh, manuscript tree
So many years
Her hazardous pages
(stained)
Writing margins
Cross the lines
Her manuscript
(a piece of darning)
Turn back
First page
Read
(written for three hundred years)
Time to end
She began …
© Jennifer T., Cincinatti, OH
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I wrote this while studying creative writing at Interlochen Arts Camp this past summer. My friend's poetry class was doing black out poetry, so I decided to join in. I went through and highlighted words I liked. Once I formulated a theme, I went back through and strung the words together to make my piece more fluid.