Working Title (MSP Creative Writing Curation)

.........A day late and a dollar short. But can you all smell what the poets are cooking?.....................................................

wisps from a fantasy
faerie towns
tiny beasts perched on towers

Winter Walk by @torico is a photo essay crossed with her special brand of poetry. She's always been one of my favorite writers, and I'm pretty excited she's posting again!

This is a call
to the swans in your chest,
and the pterodactyls in your eyes,
and the primordial reptiles
swimming beneath your tongue.

A Very Urgent Message by @caitlinjohnstone is an opportunity to see a poet play with words while communicating a message about personal power.

Butterfly Wings by @poetrybyjeremy is a poet that I recently rediscovered- and his work is just gorgeous. He also has a post with a reading He also recently got published, so give him some congratulations!

“You're losing it,” he said. “Suicide? Again? We talked about that, man. There is an audience for suicides, you know that. I know that,” he released the straps and I shivered as they slithered back over my body, feeling like a hundred thousand crawling insects. “It pays well, if you know what you’re doing. But you’ve built up a following. They like... traditional fictional heroes. Flawed characters, sure. But they want them to win in the end.”

The Discussion by @felt.buzz is a continuation of the exquistite corpse story that I included in last weeks curation by blockurator. Its shaping up to be absolutely fantastic, and I love how he not only breaks the fourth wall but kicks it's pieces around a little.

Frightening as they may be, sirens warn of danger, but also promise help - an ambulance is on its way, the firetrucks are coming, somebody will get rescued. But in that place there is no rescue, not now, not in a million years. Hell is forever.

In the Dead of Night by @marie-jay is a free writing piece that freefalls into darkness and ends by holding a mirror to god's face. Absolutely stunning.