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The title to this thread is not showing up.

1. Skin Hunger
2. Spit Hood
3. Everybody Out
4. Ubiquity
5. Returning Home to the Carrot Capital of the World
6. Why?
7. Somewhere Between John Ashbery and DMX
8. Eliminate Institutional Memory
9. Gigantism
10. Blooming
11. Reverse the Order to See How It Ends
12. Too Soon
13. Not an Astronaut
14. MOM WERE OKAY
15. headspace <.atelier.> meatspace
16. What is a locust? [found poem]
17. The shapes men take
18. You Are a Black and White Man In a Marlboro Commercial
19. mono no aware
20. the imperfectionist
21. d i a s t e r d i a s t e r d i s a s t e r d i s a
22. The Conversation Pit
23. Superstar
24. NaPo First Line Centos
25. American Sentence
26. UK Sentence
27. The Hat Research Foundation
28. Snuff
29. Countdown
30. Birding Inside the NaPo Aviary

[Mike M]

Excellent title

Not showing up must be the other half of the battle.

[Cameron Clark]

Without contraries is no progression (!)

[Scrow]

Hey Steve,

Good to see you here. I like that you have brought your secret invisibility cloak

Sarah

[amaddux]

I made an image, posted it in reply, then realized it violated the rules this year. so um 404

[Jee Leong]

Engaging paradox.

[Dunc]

Steve

Glad you showed up.

I'll speak to HM and see what we can do about a title.

Have a great month!

Regards / Dunc

[cookala]

damned if you do and damned if you don't. show up, that is. take from one who knows...

[drumpf]

Ironic. Iconic. I.

[scraps]

Skin Hunger

You don’t have to cuddle anyone at a Cuddle Party, ever.

You are a dark wool blanket stretched almost to ripping,

your four corners pinned.

You are surrounded by light bulbs

and you are the only dark thing.

The light hovers and thinks to crackle.

Someone in the building is frying chicken.

It will be over before you know it.

[Cameron Clark]

Your sense of free-asociation logic, which I detect in most of your poems, but maybe here is used to its full advantage, allow your one-line stanzas to capture an almost love-poem in a surreal form. Keep showing up!

[tweeds]

"The light hovers and thinks to crackle." is my favourite line. Such unexpected diction. Agree with Cameron about the strength of the free association, from line to line. I wonder if some of the associative language runs across the line break and starts to mingle?

[Janelo]

Jeebuss scraps, that took a quick turn from cuddling to a dark scene indeed.

For me the dark spot pinned under bright lights produces an emotional response and speaks of the shadow in a Jungian way that is abstract but powerful.

[Sorella]

Steve,
Skin Hunger is excellent, fresh images giving the reader so much and leaving so much up to the reader. The young student eating a wolf is concentrated surprise!
You are on a NaPo roll already, pleased you are here!

Sorella

[kamala]

I've never been to a Cuddle Party, and if that's where it leads I never want to go...That was cryptically dark...
As with others, the standout line for me was the one where "the light hovers..."

Curious for more!