Calisthenics, week 7

Here is a shot at exercise 8 “Suspensions and reverberations” from Writing Poetry, p. 215.

Caught

Stretched like putty, putty outstretched

snaps back to what you did you said you wouldn’t do

It’s like something you catched.

Again and again, a gain has yet been made

It’s what you said you said you wouldn’t do that’s what you said.

Out with a buddy, stretched like silly putty

Now you wind up hungover and sludged in your bed.