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Alonna (アラナ) Shaw is a place-based poet who works across poetry, visual art, and film. Her work explores how memory and the body shape what we carry when language falls short. She participates in the strange ethics of being human. ❤️robots.

"Birthday Bungle Bags"


balloon bright bubbles!
blimp bops burden
backfire belly bulge?

bloat bilge belies blob.
boilerplate brain
bead bed, bogus barm—

billow balls bladder!
bounce borderless
birthday bungle bags.*


Translation: One morning, too many beached balloons, eleven beached balloons. (August 28, 2017)


*Poetry Form & Constraints: Alphabet3545201_ASHAW
Select one letter of the alphabet: all words must begin with it.
3 Stanzas (lines: 5 syllables, 4 syllables, 5 syllables)
Punctuation:
-2 forms ending first and third lines of each stanza
-middle line/stanza center line (0 punctuation)
Indicate subject with 1 punctuation mark (comma)


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