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A Recipe: How to Write a Poem

Ingredients: 1 cup of sugar; 2 teaspoons of salt; 7 strands of hay; 1 poison dart frog; 3 jars of half eaten honey; 1 punctured pillow; 2 oranges; 1 sewing kit

 

Sprinkle yourself with sugar to bring the loving thoughts out.

As the thoughts start pouring sprinkle yourself with salt to contain them.

Sew 1 strand of hay to each of the 7 chakras.

Smear some of the honey across your eyes in order to feed the thoughts.

Dip the pillow in the rest of the honey and run around the room flailing it.

Drop the pillow in the Southeast corner of the room.

Juggle the oranges 9 times

Toss them at the pillow.

Kiss the frog.

 

By Heather Doherty

Heather Doherty is a recent graduate of Chester College of New England with a degree in Interdisciplinary Arts. Her writing has previously been published in Chester College’s literary journal So Good, University of New Hampshire Manchester’s literary journal The Inkblot and Cheshire, CT’s weekly newspaper The Cheshire Herald. Her photography has been published in The Inkblot and Chester College of New England’s literary journal Compass Rose. Her work has also been shown in the gallery at Concord, NH’s New to You and at Chester College’s Wadleigh Library Gallery.

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