Last poem from English Comp. II today. It was unfinished but I polished it this afternoon. Now I wish I could do a whole thing of "respond to" stuff but... yeah. This was an odd project as it was free form, or any chosen. But the construction required to use three words from each category. So I had a total of four adjectives, four nouns, and four verbs to choose from that I had randomly chosen. Ultimately I had to use sordid, shifting, chest, angle, rotate, fold, bejeweled, vermilion, sun. I didn't use roared, ursine, and spring.

Now here's the kicker. I had to describe a hand as the subject matter without using the damn word. You might not have thought that's what this poem is about.

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A sordid shifting is the first,
By: S.C. Groom

A sordid shifting is the first,
broad by a chest to support -
each angle to rotate and fold.
To count all, one plus one,
til each bejeweled singular,
as respectives to cup a vermilion sun;
seen only by an autumnal ode.