"Connotations" and "Rewrite request"

By Viviane Sassen — *Rosebushes under the Trees* by Gustav Klimt, courtesy of Wikmedia Commons.

CONNOTATIONS

Use the word bank below to fill in the blanks (words may be used more than once)

       words         loss                  hate               hunger           body        remnant
       memory     inheritance    dreams           sacrifice        history     theory
       truth           obsession       imagination  imposter       logic         belief

________ // a fish swimming in ink

________ // the rainwater filling my half-drunk cup

________ & ________ // severed from dirt and root these pitiful things

________ // a bird on my lap preening its feathers they become stuck in my sweater
I too think I am molting I pluck them from myself to use in ink

________ // staring at the sun too long the black dot a bowl I soak my thoughts in overnight

________ // glass bottles placed outside to catch rain some tinted green with overuse

________ // a house burning in a backyard as I sit on a well I am not sure whose

________ & ________ // conjoined twins sharing only one good liver

________ // an offering

________ // the boat of my thoughts burns in the smoke of you

________ // the caterpillar on your finger too weightless to feel lingering

________ // plays tricks hides fragments of itself in other things

________ // an atmosphere of papers flying dragged on car bumpers going

whiteness spreads

________ & ________ // the oar that dips into the ocean & the bioluminescent plankton
that respond

________ // embers pulsing red forgotten as red a well of heat just out of frame

REWRITE REQUEST

for March 16^th, 2021

A metamorphosis has occured when a word is made objective, a severed limb given pains by its phantom.
March 16^th, 2021, Crime, WCNC: Four people were killed and were becomes the borderland of time that arrests are. The e’s taken away, already hung from their tails on a tree like spanish moss, a symbiosis of violence. The w objects, a yoke is a dismemberment a neck made to pull. A word made by its relation to the victim like choke only it has the audacity to ask y. And one other was wounded I read as wound as in a top, as in the neck that makes the satisfying noise as it breaks.	__________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________
New words are born from Misuse and Misuse demands a corruption, a disunion from what was. A newborn delivered by the departure of its mother and now the young thing is left uncared for and orphaned, it grows to hate those who left it.
March 16^th, 2021, Arts, CNN Style: Stiasny’s property was gradually confiscated, and in August of that year, she was forced to sell to an acquaintance her painting – now titled “Rosiers sous les Arbres” – at a reduced price. Nazi hides inside the body of acquaintance and taken inside reduced price. Gradually conceals suddenly. Confiscated takes a bullet for stolen. A whole family hiding beneath the floorboards of language.	__________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________
Can a void be called filled by the abundance that created the vacancy in the first place? Mouths repeating left split open like wet melons, an echo unreturned and stillness a punishment for hunger.
March 16^th, 2021, Crime, The New York Times: A man has been charged as in a bull, running at in which and including to get through to six women of Asian descent and passive voice the weapon built in the name of disarmament.	__________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________
19—, Crime, An Inherited Story: It was on a Friday. My father and the townsmen were taken away already. It began on page six of eleven. The first section Who Are the Armenians, then Their Origin, then Who Are the Turks, then Prelude to My Story, then My Story. But it was no re-counting of history. It was to say I could see it coming. I saw it coming. They saw it coming. It came. The end.	__________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________

“Connotations” and “Rewrite request”

CONNOTATIONS

REWRITE REQUEST

A Broken Alphabet

By The Numbers

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