surreal caramel: my beau present for oulipost

surreal caramel

my rural sclera….

alarms. mauls clash,

crash, rhyme. acres.

mercury rays-

arms ache, a marsh.

she: caramel

as caramel,

yeah- easy, sure/

real. sacral, calm

as amylase.

 

Source

Wermund, Benjamin. “Controversial Social Scientist’s Visit Creates a Furor at Rice.” Houston Chronicle 8 Apr. 2014: B1.

Note:  

The goal was to create a poem using a name found in the newspaper, and Charles Murray (of Bell Curve fame) obliged by coming to town.

 

Here is the prompt I was responding to:

 

Select a name from one of your newspaper articles, famous or not. Compose a poem using only words that can be made from the letters in that person’s name. For example, if you selected “John Travolta,” you may only use words that can be made from the letters A, J, H, L, N, O, R, T and V.

The use of web-based tools is highly encouraged to help uncover different words that can be made from your letters of choice. One tool you might consider is the Scrabble Word Finder.