Witches, what haunts you?
PROMPT PART ONE
Witches, what haunts you? Who is haunted by you? Set a timer for 15 minutes and free write.
PROMPT PART TWO
Read these two examples of abecedarians — works organized by the alphabet.
A Broken Alphabet
By Tracy Seid
Anonymous Assholes Bedrooms without spring or summer
Craigslist cunts on the cusp and Confession by way of coma Caught
Dick out on a Sunday run Doppelgangers as dappled lovers
Dappled light on left ankle tattoo Deletion and completion
Cum on her purple bed sheet A tired thought
An explanation
of benefits
Expletives I class up Eve in the evening Flashy texts and pics
Eve in the morning Flash drives closeted
Fucked them all Fuck all them Fuck them all
Flaccid Little
Ghosts I say
Greg’s ghost I say seance
Gregs’ ghosts I say
Hello, I remember you and
Hell’s hospital room where I asked for help
The Indigo children and starseeds and mediums and Six of Wands
outnumbered
Indolent intuition mine Indecency for the taking
Inwood Park and the piano played its music absorbed by tulip trees
ICU
In our bed I turn over
I see you Greg I see you seizure a glitch in the corner
Jasmine on my mind
Jacked up index
Karma on the line
Kara or Kate no not Karen
Caretaker support group meeting attended once
Klepto currency (your exchange rate)
Leptomeningeal disease
Lists as ladders to Monopolized desire
Missed therapy sessions with Josh
Moon in absentia
MRI
Marble Hill Avenue
Nurses at night say men double their lives
Night knife in future tense
N
O
Proxy; I won’t sign it
On Earth
No poetry in sight
No promises or
Proximations
Prelude to remembrance
Q train and tips for busking and mantras
Q-tips discarded in our bathroom trash
Riptides this tirade
Rosemary your mother
Rose quartz asunder
Seized and seizure
Security answers: rW3nz0ri
Sitz baths and saints on playing cards
Soiled briefs in a plastic grocery bag
So what if
thoughts are things and
things are ten digit passcodes
Transfer of assets as you lose yourself somewhere else
Unscrambled
Unusual online activity
Veneered in the fine print
Veering into riptides again
Vultures in Patagonia fleece
Women they will come and they will go
Women left asking hello
What is the matter you ask me
a. X-ray prophecy b. Xanax alternated with Zzzquil c. Expectation and expiration
You: a zenith
zeroed down to sleep