The beauty of what Kleon does is he simply starts with a newspaper story and blacks out most of the words. The results are funny, insightful, and just plain cool.
From one page he got the following poem:
The Skinny Son
as
the skinny, son
what is hidden from
sight is
only gradually
laid
out
yet even as mother and father
re imagine their courtship
A feeling
Hovers around you
that
To describe "A Secret"
is
to
play
images drained of
color,
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I would recommend picking up a copy for some inspiration! Happy Poetry Month!
Paz,
Nieves
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