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Lois Harrod. Cento for a Slate Day.

Lois Harrod

Cento for a Slate Day

 Beyond the shale night
 the rooster jumps up on the windowsill.
  
 I raise the machete—
 East Ridge going to the abattoir.                      
  
 Poetry is not a form
 but a result:
  
 what’s true of oceans is true
 of labyrinths.
  
 “You lie,” he cried,
 And ran on. 

 Lois Marie Harrod

This cento (or poetic collage) quotes the following poems, listed in order of reference: “The solitude of an apricot” by Carl Adamshick; “Cuba, 1962” by AI; “Ode to the Unbroken World, Which is Coming” by Thomas Lux; “Any fool can get into an ocean…” by Jack Spicer; and “I saw a man pursuing the horizon” by Stephen Crane.

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Lois Harrod

Lois Marie Harrod’s Spat will be published in May 2021. Her 17th collection Woman won the 2020 Blue Lyra Prize. Nightmares of the Minor Poet appeared in June 2016 (Five Oaks); her chapbook And She Took the Heart, in January 2016; Fragments from the Biography of Nemeis and How Marlene Mae Longs for Truth (Dancing Girl Press) appeared in 2013. A Dodge poet, she is published in literary journals and online ezines from American Poetry Review to Zone 3. Online link: www.loismarieharrod.org

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