This piece is my first attempt at being a poetics pirate! I’m trying my hand a unique form called Plunderverse. It’s an “Expressive Subjects” prompt that I’ve been meaning to try for a while. The idea is that you take a poem or a piece of writing you like, and you take out bits and pieces from it and make a variation of the original.
In my case, I’m not even using a poem. Instead, as I was listening to the audiobook of the book Beautiful Boy (a father’s memoir of living with his son’s drug addiction), I took notes on words and passages that I liked, and made something new.
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Both homes seem illusory.
Teenagers complain, integrate their lives badly, a flaw in their character
A flaw in their lives.
Books, quiet, low-grade melancholia
Two weeks to cram in surfing
Re-enactments & the vanishing act. Wait for the shuttle,
trailing minors with magic markers.
Open cardigan. Suitcase of your things. Warbling lyrics through the airplane.
Scary eyes, woo-woo chorus, percussion, cacophony, pounding.
Howling
Test drive the minivan for your growing family
Less trampled beaches
Rolling in the waves
Seaweed crust
Waiting for the next wave to crash down
On the way home, ceaseless back-and-forth
Worldly, sagacious child but with emotional chasms.
Meagre consolation.
Welcome to the dollhouse.
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