by Bill Yarrow
What a beautiful Thing
Urine is
in a Pot
brown, yellow,
transpicuous, the Image
diamond shaped
of the Candle in it
especially, as
it now appeared
I having emptied the Snuffers
into it & the Snuff
floating about, &
painting all-shaped Shadows
on the Bottom
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This is a found poem: Coleridge's Notebook I, entry #1766.
This poem appeared in The Miscreant.
Thank you, Amanda Harris.
This poem appears in Blasphemer (Lit Fest Press 2015).
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Setting is everything.
I remember this!*
Yes.
"diamond shaped
of the Candle in it
especially"
Found poems are such a marvel. Good one, Bill.
Nicely done, sir.
Thanks, Jerry, Gary, Amanda, Sam, and Stephen!
Great discovery. Well done *
You left out the blood, but no fault for that. *
Thanks, John!
JLD--OK, THAT got my attention!
* for all that
"all-shaped Shadows
on the Bottom"
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Here's to amber waves:) *
Hahaha! Rene wins!
Thanks, Gary, Daniel, and Rene!
Good one, Bill. They used to use urine in alchemy, nothing came of it of course. But this poem is gold. *
Thanks, Myra!