Wheezing Wolf, Take 3

the wolf,
waiting,
just outside
the door

asthmatic, couldn't blow
her house down.

Taking pity

she let the animal in....

He clip-
ped [cough] his hairy limbs
with child [cough] scissors
until a mound of his brown coat
lay on the floor.

She hugged him like a boy she loved
hours before
the boy grew into the person he'd be
hours later.

[cough]
The wolf
could not

could!not!

Asthmatic Attackerrrrrrr!

the wolf,
waiting,
just outside the door...

asthmatic, couldn't blow
her house down. Taking pity

she let the animal in....


The wolf
could only wait
outside the door__being___Asthmatic,,,,,,,,,,,,,,asthma-
tic, tic.TIC.!TIC
in action--unable to, could not, with no single strength to
blow her
house
down.

Taking pity
she let the animal in. Clip-
ped [cough] his hairy limbs

with child [cough] scissors
until a mound of his brown coat
lay on the floor.
She hugged him like a boy she loved hours before
the boy grew into the person he'd be
hours later.
[cough]
The wolf
could not . . .
could!not!. . .
. .
..
.

what the hell, here are a few words...

the wolf,
waiting,
just outside the door

...

asthmatic, couldn't blow
her house down. Taking pity

she let the animal in.

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Alrighty...

Hey all...

So, several of you have received email invites and can now post on this blog.

I'm not quite sure how to kick things off and am suddenly gun shy having y'all here, but--

write here we shall. Mary (Zack, you've not met Mary yet but she's a wonderful poet and if&when you head back to Austin, y'all need to meet) and I were at Flightpath the other day and worked on one prose collaboration, and a poetry one that I'll post sometime this evening. Ya'll can have at that one should it move you to do so.

Otherwise, feel free to post your own. Let me know if you'd like to be signed up as admin, or would like to invite anyone else...

Also, we have the option to make this blog readable to just us. Let me know if that's something you guys might want to do.

I can also list everyone I've invited if y'all like, but I'm pretty sure everybody here already know each other... save a couple of exceptions.

Feel free to run some test posts... whatever ya'll want.


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also, forgot to add... everyone can go into a single post and add or edit it. so, for instance, this particular post is open to y'all to add on as you wish. At least I think so...

If I write:


The dumb pink unicorn leaped over the crazy....

(you can guys can add to/change that as you wish)
(I think. Somebody please test it out?)

Allow Me to Introduce Some Body

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Welcome to WORD : CORPSE

A place for writers to collaborate.

Alchemize. Conjure. Create.

We've our pens crossed for gold, but, barring that, mutual inspiration will do.

A collaboration can begin a number of ways:


Post a Picture.

Find an evocative image. You know the kind, the sort of thing that catches your breath a little it’s so stunning/appalling/absurd/heartbreaking/grotesque... Something that cannot help but tell a story, or quicken the blood, or stir that dark swampy place in the back of your mind. You can post the image as is and wait for someone to start in on writing, or—better—you can write the first line to get things going. Keep all instructions, explanations and expositions at a minimum. Let the eyes words work on their own.


Post a Quote.

This may be tricky, because many quotes you’ll run into are all rather pithy and declarative and don’t leave much for one to add on to. In fact, most quotes readily searchable on google are more conversation enders than starters, a kind of ‘Ah-ha’ or even ‘Ha-ha’ flourish that can only leave one solemnly nodding or shaking their head in deep empathy. Best is to find that line or sentence you run into that is more enigma than epiphany. More non-sense (or un-sense) than “it-all-makes-sense” kinda thing. You can incorporate the quote in a first line, or follow it with something completely different.


Post five words.

Another writer will write the first line incorporating these five words, but will also include in their first line five additional words (indicated in bold) for the next writer to use. The process repeats. The best way to do this is to have direct interaction with the other writers of the piece. That way, the person can reciprocate, and their own word choices will be (consciously and unconsciously) guided by the other writers by that ghost of a story embedded in the words themselves. The repetition of the words should make of an interesting ‘end’ product (if the story ever ends).


Design your own rules

If you’ve dreamt up a really nifty idea, some kind of genius oulipoean master plan to guide our words, by choice and chance, to their ideal golden state, then write them out, as clearly and simply as you can manage and email it all the writers. The instructions won’t appear on the actual blog, unless you can manage some poetic rendering of the rules that everyone can understand.


Post a Line of Your Own

By far the simplest prompt, simply post one or a few lines and all can add on as they see fit. Though simplest, this may be not as much fun. There’s something about being bound to an arbitrary form that forces your brain to tread untrodden paths. And, in the end, that’s what I hope this little project will help everyone do. There’s something special that happens when your words are forced into conflict—with other’s words, with other words, with ideas, images and other stimuli new, strange, and different. Here’s to that something special. Here’s to words, corpses, and all bodies of mute brilliance.


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