Mathias Svalina

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A Dream Delivery Service Poetry Prompt 1. Write a poem, not with a word’s definition, 2. but with the nothing at the core of each word. 3. Write lines like linked chains of nothing. 4. Sentences like walls of nothing. 5. Until the whole poem’s nothing circles you like a lip. 6. Until you are the word that nothing speaks. 7. Bear, bridge, bread, blossom.
1. Devise a new kind of sentence. 2. A sentence evolved beyond a need for nouns or verbs or articles. 3. A sentence in which words are electrons. 4. And the sentence is a forest. 5. And the sentence’s meaning is a whole life 6. A life lived eternal within the limits of the sentence.
A Dream Delivery Service Poetry Prompt 1. Reduce the poem to a single fact, like a walnut. 2. Hold the poem in your palm, like a walnut. 3. Crack the poem open & find the coin inside. 4. Whisper the coin into seawater. 5. Into an ocean of photographs of the ocean. 6. That’s the joy & horror of language. 7. Language makes an ocean of a walnut 8. as easily as it turns a person into a verb. 9. If one can’t swallow the ocean 10. what’s the use of an ocean?
A Dream Delivery Service Poetry Prompt 1. Drop a handful of words into a plastic bag. 2. Hold the end of the bag to your mouth. Blow into it, until the bag is full & taut. 3. Shake the bag, until all the long words shatter into short words. 4. Hold the bag again to your mouth & inhale. Deeply. Inhale all the words. 5. Hold your breath as long as you can. 6. Until the burn of the words goes still. 7. Until the words go straight to your head. 8. Until your knees soften. 9. Until the world’s edges soften into the sweet nothing of words. 10. Until the poem is a door to step through, & on the other side lies nothing.