Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Avalanche

An avalanche is a series of snowballs, with each individual snowball consisting of one more line than its predecessor. (For an explanation of the snowball form, please follow this link: http://reoulipo.blogspot.com/2007/07/diamond-snowball.html)

The following is an eight-stanza avalanche:

Outside

I—

O,
Me—

I
Am
Not.

I
Am
All
Gone—

A
By-
The-
Book-
Death,

A
No-
Win,
Time-
Spent
Corpse.

I
Go
Out
Past
Flesh,
Toward
Nothing;

“I”
Is
The
Dark
Thing
Beyond
Eulogy’s
Precinct.