For instances ("letting the sun set is not my own")

i

We're let beauties be
sun-bruises lip in.

That night-birds
let capable, left off at leisure.

The lake words that glown —
such bruised words! Whanging,

the lets until it rain-tops,
to twinkish sunset

of night, sunset harsh line.



ii

All this sunsettery —
I had aren't was on where

not to be, and hardly
own root roses...

Thingly ’til I sing. I let
unto the lets fall,

partlys and partlys.




[In my preface to this blog, I promised a poem sequence: “For instances” is it.

In each "instance," I begin with a line or sentence from another writer, then find text (using the OED, other dictionaries, Google searches, etc.) for each word in the line. This creates a pool of language from which the finished poem is generated and/or inspired. The title of each “instance” (which may have multiple parts) is the original text, or an abbreviation thereof.

In this case, my prompt, appropriately enough, is an untitled poem in the “Promptbook” section of Brian Schorn’s Strabismus.]