Circa 2000: In response to a writing prompt that challenged me to use the structure of a published poem to create my own poem. I used Etheridge Knight's "My Life the Quality of Which" as inspiration.
Two strangers
whose fervor
from their first
spoken syllables
created a desire
to marry two pasts
two presents
two futures
whose words have made them
ONE
cleave in Silence
but you have to listen for it
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