A Sound

Write a piece which utilizes a sound. (For the purposes of this exercise, choose just one. You can branch out later.) Ideas: a bell, a clap, a laugh. Use the sound as punctuation, or as a marker between the poem's sections, or as a refrain.

Perform this piece in an echoey place (a church, a grain elevator, a bathtub). Perform it in a close place (under covers, in a car). Perform it before at least one other person.

Listen to what it *sounds* like.

The poem's not done till you've done all these.

posted by Celia at Friday, October 29, 2004