Untitled - Part One

Today I wrote a poem using book titles that I liked the sound and rhythm of, from the Renard Press Spring 2024 Catalogue and The Folio Society Summer Catalogue 2024. Both these publications are as beautiful as the books they sell so before I popped them in the recycling, I felt I had respectfully given then an alternative life as prompts for poetry.

I will list the titles I choose after the poem and include those I felt didn't fit and those who I removed during the six edits this piece went through before settling as a prose poem.

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In my book of revelations, I bark like a dog playing with reality as if it meant something. The yellow wallpaper is the colour of extinction, silent movement in the clouds, the prophet seeks the spoils.

In my neverending story the princess bride takes dark materials to the enchanted wood and interprets the maladies. Her songs of innocence and experiences tell Kafka, on the shore, tales of a silent spring where we have always lived in the castle.

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Titles:

Women and Love (Didn't Use)/My Book of Revelations (Used)/Every trick in the Book (Removed)/Playing with Reality (Used)/One Woman Crime Wave (Removed)/Do I Bark Like a Dog? (Used)/The Colour of Extinction (Used)/As If It Meant Something (Used)/Contraflow (Removed)/ Foggerty's Fairy (Removed)/Engaged (Removed)/In the Clouds (Used)/The Prophet (Used)/The Yellow Wallpaper (Used)/Seeking the Spoils (Used)/Silent Movements (Used)/The Song of Achillies (Used)/His Dark Materials (Used)/ The Princess Bride (Used)/ The Other Wind (Didn't Use)/The Neverending Story (Used)/I Capture the Castle (Didn't Use)/House of Many Ways (Didn't Use)/How to See Fairies (Removed)/Roadside Picinic (Removed)/The Master and Margarita (Didn't Use)/We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Used)/Kafka on the Shore (Used)/Shadow of the Wind (Didn't Use)/Invisible Cities (Removed)/ Interpreter of Maladies (Used)/ Songs of Innocence and of Experience (Used) /Silent Sprong (Used).

After listing these I am considering the next found poem where I used the 'Didn't Use' and a further one using 'Removed'. A Trilogy of Titles....