a series of found poems: created from the ninth words on ninth lines
(i)
Scott’s Waverley
deposits of dialogue
island form
throb
loch enterprise
arrived
not dialogue
(ii)
Zola’s Earth
At each mention of the price of wine
Rain pours down on him
Incessantly
The idea on his desk said
the dark flowing tide of dung
Had hidden his papers
(iii)
Aristotle’s Poetics
something that has a beginning
is no good for a character
where B is related to A
(they criticise the poet)
a middle and an end
to be courageous
as D is
as if
(D is)
(iv)
Shepherd’s Living Mountain
keen inside step
behind light spurts
this gleaming margin
isolated pilgrimage
(v)
Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own
no need was spent (opinion)
plucking at the lungs
for a work that is so much
promises of prizes
no yard measures (Shakespeare’s)
mind
the habit of freedom
(vi)
bell hooks’ all about love
she was men
a combination;
a loving working telling
communing with the natural world
almost a love
the primary that justifies close family
he may have a phobic fear of trust
feel, experience real presences
people, it is (love)
(vii)
Kafka’s The Trial
all in order
buried in the secrets
her corner
their friendship
the clothes
that vow
all calmly assembled
cutting nothing
the ancient
inquiry
loves
that touch
“so that’s how it is”
exception door inviting
everything you find, handkerchiefs
(viii)
Carson’s Silent Spring
soil organisms, some of the grasses and beetle
petition for an injunction
certain uncoupling may be carcinogenic
held in check
the screw-worm fly want flareback
rachelclive scribblings 