Diastic Deconstruction
You can best serve civilization by
being against what usually passes for it.
-Wendell Berry
It’s the down hour again.
The city traffic comes central through itself.
The flat scrubby deconstruction acres–
once live maples grew on Maple Street.
Now a central highway is the only live
position, the couples inside the houses
widening like the interstate.
Interstate between my here and there:
a trip, a bear, then evergreens.
Deconstruction.
Excavators widening the Kentucky of things.
Our used up hour began a couple pasts ago,
this center deconstruction.
Link: http://www.languageisavirus.com/diastic-poem-generator.php
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chuckled at “the couples inside the houses/ widening like the interstate” and how what happens to us and civilization comment each other. had to look up “diastic”
I just found the form today! I put a longer essay of mine through the process with the Berry quote and altered it a little–the “the couples inside the houses/ widening like the interstate” was straight from the diastic–a happy accident
This is just amazingly succinct. Love the link. Thanks!
Thank you! I had fun playing with it
Shaun – I feel like you are digging in and just getting better and better as this month goes along!
“Excavators widening the Kentucky of things.
Our used up hour began a couple pasts ago,
this center deconstruction.” – Oh my goodness!
I don’t fully understand how the form works, but the poem does, for me!