Attempts Spine Poetry, sort of wins.....

Greetings Garden Dwellers.....


In late October, Hannah threw down the gauntlet and challenged me to write a spine poem.  The concept is brilliantly simple: use the titles of the books on your bookshelf to build a poem.  This allows me to repurpose my favorite titles into a piece of my own, and it gives you a glimpse into my personal library.  Easy?  Peasy?  Lemon Squeezy?  Hannah advised she'd let me cheat and add a word or two of my own; however, I decided to see this one through without it.

I couldn't settle on one final product, so I've brought you four spine poems today.  So have a look a around!  I tried very hard to keep only my most favorite titles while building these poems, do you recognize any of them as favorites of your own?   Tell me all about it in the comments!

                                    Marabou stork nightmares,

                                    the anxious object

                                    rotten stiff

                                    a clockwork orange engine empire.

                                    The birthday of the world

                                    my mother: demonology.

                                     Do androids dream of electric sheep?

                                     The elephant vanishes.

                                     Art and fear stand still

                                     like the hummingbird.

                               Dance dance revolution

                               never let me go.

                               A canticle for Liebowitz,

                               fear and loathing 

                               in Las Vegas in caddis wood. 

                                         Pussy, King of the Pirates.

                                        Alias Grace.

                                  All of tomorrow's parties

                                  trash St. Lucy's home for girls raised by wolves.