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Trial i: Crimson
By: The Mad Poetess
Purpose:
I shall birth
a new colour.
Sprung from the womb
of passion & rage--
cacophonous.
The name of the labour:
The Crimsoning
after the spawn:
Crimson.
Hypothesis:
from the quill
baptized in crimson ink
to the torn parchment
poetry shall hail down
like a meteor shower.
Materials:
- Sewing needle
- Blood
- Berries harvested from the Belladonna plant (devil's cherry)
- Teardrops
- Artist's palette
- Inkwell
- Bunsen burner
- Quill pen
- Parchment
Procedure:
1. With the needle, prick finger; remove needle at the first dewdrop of blood
2. Crush and mix devil's cherries with teardrops upon artist's palette
3. Add dewdrop and rest of concoction on to palette and mix using whatever is convenient (fingers, paint brush, hair, etc)
4. Transfer Crimson to inkwell
5. Place in well above bunsen burner
6. Burn for 40 days and 40 nights until Crimson is matured
7. Dip quill into ink
5. Press quill to parchment
6. Write poetry
Observations:
The parchment kindles
beneath the ink
pages curl up
at the corners
like Medusa’s hissing serpents
every gawking
letter
a petrification of
what could have been
every lowercase t
crucified
every serif
a burning branch.
Is this the context
of a self-fulfilling prophecy?
To write poems about forest fires
and then
burn?
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My poems and I:
on the cusp of extinction.
I throw my head back
at a ghastly angle
like the ancient
Ornithomimus.
Image Source:
Red candle flames gif [image] Available at: https://blood-drops-red.tumblr.com/post/179127075772 [Accessed 25 Mar. 2021]
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