Another student in the UW program at the time, I think it was Allan Nicoletti, pointed out, about form, that the point was having them all in your tool box at the ready, just in case you were in the middle of drafting a poem and realized you were writing a villanelle - I mean, imagine if you hadn't written a dozen or so bad villanelles, read all the best villanelles out there - where would you be?
So last night I looked at some notes from the day before, and I had that moment of recognition: this poem wants to be written in accentual-syllabics! How exciting to know that my twenty or so years of thinking about "Junk" and its predecessors would finally pay off. Here's the draft, but it will go poof in a day or two as I continue to revise and revise.
The Architect of the
Inevitable
Assurance aborter
Advocate
of decay
Begotten breaker
Boisterous
blotter
Crusher of the coke-like rush
Corrupter
of the trance of can
Chaos concocter
Dream
dismantler
Discovery douser
Sudden
duster
Elegantly-erected eraser
Effacer
of the ferociously forged
Excitement expunger
Giddily
gotten gutter
Hacker of the handsomely honed
Aha!
moment hexer
Indeliblizier of the inky known
Junker
of gesso of gypsum
Kick-ass kenning killer
Limberly-delivered
leveler
Leisure liquidator
Muffler
of myriad maelstroms
Negater of the generate
Obliterator
of the opining pontificator
Concoction toppler
Plunderer
of the impulse to pulsate
Quasher of the waxing quail
Ever-reveler
of the unraveling
Spackling and speckles slayer
Aspiration
striker
Savorer of Destruction Soup
Tearer
off-er of timpani at the dotted line
Undoer of the done
Vampire
of the vampy chutzpah
Having Avenue Violator
Wrecking
the resolutely risen
X-er outer of exhilarating sparkle
Un-yesser
of the uppity nod
Zany za za zing zapper








