Rear visibility technology
An index of first lines
1.
We don’t believe the claim has merit
a military reservation in central Texas
People in general determined or
the season of the year astronomically
an inanimate thing understood, previously
The persons who direct or assist the navigation
Its in iPad is intuitive include
my mechanism moored my many more
authorities the signal had aboard
The heat to play and celebrate the Spring
Investigating three reports by ships
3.
It doesn’t take much to get gill rakers enthused
It’s a short wane from wren to his small stuper
By all M-estimates circular uniform
4.
Seattle’s newest breed of ride-service companies, determined
The wealthy family of a Texas teenager sentenced to
Our position is that we will not be issuing
news outlets in Britain lost no time in misapprehending
5.
Seeking a brother/bulldozer to lead a dynamic
Damn Afghanistan im just tryin to get back
on a corner in a room is a common music
Today’s devoted discussion that it will find
6.
7.
8.
One analyst dubbed 2014 “the year of the biblical movie.”
“We fully expect to lose it,” said Jaudon,
Republicans argue that Putin is on a rampage because
History goes that the “Lone Rock,” as it was once called,
Tricking the eye is key to decorating smaller.
9.
In an organism, when an organism from one gene is
Two hours struggle with the life blow can inflict.
“The Joseph Boyden Orenda war.” A Knopf wilderness
Peaks can get to almost every you
“God bless his tireless fight,” he said
He calls her “little shanty by the tracks.” “He had another
Egotistic indulgers assembled the spirit of Western tourists
An amateur techno character frequently hiding
He proposed when another targeted
We celebrated where few holstered
They announced when we teetered
10.
The phoenix, flower-like, moves between zone and journey. A quality looking
11.
As in so many of these awful cases
Note on composition and process:
This poem is literally what the subtitle says, an inventory of first lines in order from every poem I posted as part of the Found Poetry Review’s Oulipost 2014 project.
Wow! I thought this month would be a somewhat productive period, but I didn’t realize how much writing I had done until I went back to do this indexical piece. My count may be a bit off, but a rough tally had me clocking in at 120 pieces! Granted some were more documents of experiments than finished pieces, and I was counting all segments as poems in sequence, but I did not expect so many nearly finished pieces and sequences. Plus I still have a wealth of untapped, formatted and sorted material to go back to. It looks like this summer I’ll be busy collecting and editing poems, going back to my material to flesh out a few sequences, and taking an exacto knife and glue to the stack of 30 newspapers taking space in a corner of my bedroom.
Please keep tuned in. This week I intend to follow up on this project with an exit interview and a rundown on my favorite poems by other Ouliposters. And throughout May and June, I intend to give updates on how this material all comes together.
Ouliposting 