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Workshop w/Connor
15 – 10 – 5 – line reduction exercise then down to 6 words
Prompt: There is nothing here
15 lines
There is nothing here.
Finally, the boxes have been inventoried,
the memories have been catalogued.
Emotional spring cleaning of the torrential
aftermath of our separation.
At first the realization that there is nothing here
was the zipper caught with the fabric of betrayal
that can no longer realign its tracks.
Conceding that the ignored worn threads
foretold of screams that were only eclipsed
by the roar of the vacuum of silence.
But now, stripped bare of the blindfolds of convenience,
we now stand as we once did; as friends without agendas.
We can now smile and say there is nothing here.
Each prepared to paint on our own canvases.
10 lines
Inventoried boxes of catalogued memories
yielded from emotional spring cleaning
left in the torrential aftermath of our separation.
The zipper of our marriage got caught
on the fabric of your betrayal.
Screams of silence stripped bare
our blindfolds of convenience
to now stand again as friends.
With nothing here but our own
blank canvases to paint.
5 lines
Nothing but inventoried boxes of catalogued memories
yielded from emotional spring cleaning
Marriage’s zipper caught on the fabric of your betrayal,
stripping bare our blindfolds of convenience.
Nothing here now but our own blank canvases to paint.
6 words
Spring cleaning
Bare blindfold
Blank canvases
