"poker" in-class exercise, 2/9/12

Our teacher distributed index cards with random words/phrases on them, and after switching random cards with classmates a few times, she had us create a free verse poem. My 7 words/phrases ended up being insect infestation, tiger, snakes invade homes, typhoon, gorge, eagle, and petroglyph.

This is how mine turned out:

Invasion

It starts with an insect infestation,

trillions of tiny teeth mauling

the fleshy interiors, too much like

a tiger mutilating a furry flank.

Then it spreads.

Snakes invade homes,

a rapid typhoon of failing

weaknesses in the great gorge,

until all that’s left is the eagle,

soaring in solitude above the

scattered remains spread out

like a petroglyph depicting what it used to be.