My Newbie is Showing...Part 3

BC: House in Motion

While at Omi International Arts Center in Ghent, New York, artists Alex Schweder and Ward Shelley built a house that spins and tilts in agreement with the wind, and the shifting weight of its inhabitants. Then they resided in the structure for five days, and will spend another several days living there this fall. Write a poem or story inspired by the image or idea of living in a structure that is constantly spinning, and which tilts up or down as you walk through it. What kind of vocabulary or pacing might mimic or reflect the sensation of spinning? How can you play with emotional weight or levity to create shifting feelings throughout your work?

It's a boat! On land! Why?

A poem about a boat on land?

Columbus sailed the ocean blue
in 14 hundred and 92
on a boat that would dip and twirl
like a wayward girl
He stepped off with a mighty roar
and planted the boat in New York


Maybe I should have gone with the Queen Mary. That's in drydock in New York right? Maybe Columbus's crafts are at the bottom of the ocean....now my head hurts with all this thinking. I go now.