The assignment was to compose a renga, a Japanese collaborative poetic form. On September 30, The Tolerance Project Coordinator Rachel Zolf joined brains with classmates Ray DeJesus & David Blasco to output the following. Zolf's lines were naturally generated from The Tolerance Project Archive using Ray & David's words as search terms. Poetic DNA barcodes below as usual. Truly a testament to the collaborative potential of the MFA in Creative Writing.
Revenga
The airplane's strings, taut
The unforeseeable future
telephone on board
& the plucky errand boy
draws battery diagrams
the conceptual framework
pulled from A to Zone
point-of-view of a puppet
that ace in the hole uphill
downhill a mug that cries foul
but wait, we’re moving
seems a train across the way
& dry circumstance
as if thought were sufficient
as if we needed the plan
transfigured memory
a bottle of tequila
like a mouth to flame
electroplated handsets
used the provided seat belts
over your shoulder
republic as in the air
that sort of conduct
the burnt body of water
pair of earrings to return
flexible substrates
indifferent to the trials
in shifts of vowel
fixtures slid in quietly
sink below the frank handcuff
slouched to form in shriek
fast hands slip as a week wanes
toys the size of bricks
a bit in your mouth, the moon
falls into the lake—stay there
Plato made his dogs
wander the house of women
a kind of death cough
traction and embraces
dazzling cursive in bold
the black slip in dots
wrestling to become a find
the wires touch at twelve
frightening to dash in light
comfort to dodge high noon smoke
& wouldn’t it be
better to spill in attics
cancel the bake sale
this has meant nothing to me
the truth in a joke, to dig
the broke wrist of beds
sticking to basement hung
a baseball thrown low
sticking forks into flat cakes
a callous giggle alone
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