Thursday, May 8, 2014

conchoidal fracture

This term, conchoidal fracture, stuck in my head for days after it appeared in my stacked poem from the Tweetspeak Poetry Meet-Up workshop, then wove its way into the verse below. 



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in the absence of a

natural plane of separation

     (no inherent weakness

      to the structure)

obsidian heart

swELLs

at the point of impact


(either as the intended target

or a random landing 

force)


shock waves splay

from the bulb of percussion


radiating ripples over

the once-glassy

stone





2 comments:

  1. I especially like "obsidian heart." :)

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  2. I love that you worked with the poem stack a little more. And I love the poem. :)

    I just wrote a new one yesterday from a fantastic list of words I culled from Major Jackson's "Holding Company."

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