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"Spelling Bee - A Girl's Linguistic Journey"
Visual poem, 2012
First
tap wack
snap
air and papalapap.
Papi mein. Noapte buna Kindlein.
3 Lei Stück.
Lorelei. Polyphonic Hollywood nearby.
Moa??-
ta pe ghea?? and heaveho.
El burrito
sabanero
Tuqui
trucki
lapte
la
copil
De Temesvar ins exil.
Cantando Silvio porque en seguida
Lo hermoso
nos cuesta la vida.
Y como
el
gato
en
la
obscuridad
Baje del cielo a la nueva verdad.
Honigkuchenpferd, kunterbunt, und Graben
Fressen
Ihn im Schlarafenland die Raben.
“My
Pony” lies over the ocean
With the thapatistas,
!ay que cuh! and supamen(g).
Spelling bees test
madeup words
Like marvalus, nees, and arkansaw,
But Ishmaels spleen, Jane, and Waugh
Unlock ephemeral - defluvium – peregrine;
Goethean
Petals ere Frost unseen.
Thus seraphim,
Heliotrope, and chrysalis
Save with a
Hermeneutic kiss a
nd elegance
Our 3 Lei t
ot from complacencys Garrote
Polishing t
his pariah into a blissful Groschen
Endlich i
n possession de su goschen.
more coming soon...