This exercise comes straight from languageisavirus.com, a great site for writing prompts and exercises. Bernadette Mayer has many wonderful writing experiments, 82 of them listed there. I picked a number at random (using a number generator from random.org) and got 54... excellent!
54. Write the poem: Ways of Making Love. List them.
Well isn't that exciting! I'l try it!
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Ways of Making Love
Making love on furniture:
kiss your neck on the couch,
goosebumps
behind your ears
and in my fingers
wrap the wisps of hair
tug
slide my hand
under you
lift you up to meet me;
Spread your thighs on the coffee table
nibble gently, at first
hold an ankle
run a hand up to your knee
pull you
into my mouth;
Bend you over the computer chair
the desk
the stool
the walls are fine too
for pressing against,
the floor
the sink
Romping naked, outside
bite each other in the starlight
dew collecting on our bare skin
blades of grass, hundreds of fine tongues
licking
Grab each other by the waist
and dive together
into the warm pool
collar bones and shoulders
edging out of the water
thighs intertwined
~sink~
shimmering water's surface
cascading bubbles
sunbeams lightly spearing our flesh
muted by our depth
In the closet, pitch dark
dungeon dark,
in the dirt in the cellar
grab handfulls of earth
clench teeth
dissolve in the stark emptiness
I cannot write them all,
it is not possible
these will just have to do
for now
ways of making love
I'd like to try all of them
again and again
and find myself
and you
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