For the next prompt choose a poem that resonates with you and imitate its structure. If you need another example, look at Faylita Hicks’ “#LoveMachine”and notice how each line leads to the next through a repetition that drives the poem forward.
For the first prompt, using “#LoveMachine” as a guide, write a statement, perhaps a commonplace one or a quote from someone else, but follow it with an image.
For a second prompt, create a Matryoshka doll of your stanzas as the poet did in her last stanzas. Using repetition, cut the lines down so that one runs to a smaller line nesting inside it.
For another prompt, use the line “the small body of my machine” as a ghostline and go from there. Remember to erase the line and give credit to the poet.
Bonus prompt: write a phrase and do an image search of it and write about that.
