Home - Writing - Book of Days - Without Looking (One for the Drawer)

Without Looking (One for the Drawer)

Posted on July 12, 2003 in Book of Days Poems

Note: This is part of a series based on exercises from A Writer’s Book of Days. It’s something of a rebellion against the Friday Five and similar tupperware content memes.

Today’s topic: “Throw away the lights, the definitions/and say of what you see in the dark.” (after Wallace Stevens)

This thing of feeling — the hand — reaches

past the warm smooth

past the lukewarm pocked grain soft

stops at a fuzzy half purse.

Twitching, the found shifts, moves

the hair crowd standing on

the less than blunt knife’s edge,

replacing it with a wet blade roughness

pulled across the knuckles.


A ridged shockwave

bends and unbends through the air

and arrives at a thing for different feelings.

The news jumps from a thin tightness to the firm softness

that feels nothing by itself

but registers shocks and tickles from all points.

An assignment is made.

The molecule pattern smashing on tympanum is classed as “purr”.


To see a list of other participants in this meme, click on more.



Others who participate:


Want to participate? First either get yourself a copy of A Writer’s Book of Days by Judy Reeves or read these guidelines. Then either check in to see what the prompt for the day is or read along in the book.

Tomorrow’ topic/prompt: Write about a theft.

  • Recent Comments

  • Categories

  • Archives