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# How to Write a Poem
- URL: https://www.andyposner.org/how-to-write-a-poem/
- Published: 2025-11-05T06:14:16.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-18T20:57:33.000Z
- Description: Stare out a window, any window, until your eyeballs loosen and you spoon them out of your skull like two warm eggs. Be sure to keep at least one nerve and one blood vessel attached to the bowl of pudding that rests on your spine.
- Author: Andy
- Tags: poetry, #Migrated-1784090317409, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-15 04:39

Stare out a window, any window, until your eyeballs loosen  
and you spoon them out of your skull like two warm eggs.

Be sure to keep at least one nerve and one blood vessel  
attached to the bowl of pudding that rests upon your spine.

Watch for hungry sparrows and squirrels, watch for children  
too young to have forgotten to dream, watch for vandals

with empty burlap sacks, and masks pulled down around  
their necks, and sad faces like unpollinated azaleas.

Toss your head as savagely as you wish; pull a scarf across  
your eye sockets; touch your finger to the strawberry, plump

with decades of blood-rain, chanting inside your chest;  
stomp the blood-worms gathering around your feet.

Have a feast. When else if not now? What else if not this?  
For there’s a black veil in the sky, dirt tugging at your legs;

and in your backyard, a campground of bones shivers before  
a pile of ears that will go deaf if you hold your tongue any longer.