30/30: Golden Shovel #9

Source: Breaking the Bonds of Mere Language

Suppressed words invade my dreams to the breaking

Point. I drown in mystery, obscurity, the

Enigmatic, cryptic, garbled, murky, until ripped bonds

Of intention, of significance, of

Meaning reduce rationality to mere

Surface, questioning the existence of language.

Here is how I am using Terrance Hayes’s Golden Shovel poem format, as proposed by the Sunday New York Times "At Home" section, for 30 Poems in 30 Days during National Poetry Month.

Take a newspaper headline that attracts you.

Use each word in the line as the end word for each line in your poem.

Keep the end words in order.

Describe the story that the headline is for.

The poem does not have to be about the same subject as the headline that creates the end words.