About a year ago, Kathleen Kirk posted about long titles and short poems. As I was reading this week, I came across an example that I love in Nick Lantz’s book We Don’t Know We Don’t Know (title from a Donald Rumsfeld quote).
The Collapse of a Twenty-Story Bamboo Construction Scaffold Caught on Home Video – Hong Kong, September 12, 2002
Until you play the tape backward,
you not see the body: live and leaping
into the reassembling wreckage.
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The small poem in and of itself would be a devastating image. The addition of the long title, with its sterile objectivity, makes the action of the poem all the more emotional.
If you want to write:
Tongue planted in a black humor cheek a bit, here are Two Short Poems.
http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.in/2012/08/shades-of-roses-on-my-walls.html
Attempted
here
Oh, devastating indeed. My heart keeps thumping as if I am seeing it, forward and backward.
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