Enchanted

(words from first and last lines Marianne Moore, Complete Poems)

Eternity, dissatisfied

with the claws of time,

traded its armored clocks

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for cherries, for fresh air

and strawberries. Uplifted

and reserved the wisdom

of birds.

This poem is part of a series, a prolonged challenge I set for myself. Vocabulary for each poem was taken from first and last lines of a poetry collection on my shelf. (The source appears beneath the poem’s title.) As I composed these, I allowed a couple diversions from the set vocabulary. I changed a verb tense or form of a word as needed. And on a few occasions, a word was added to complete a thought. I think of these as collage poems.