From Seasoning by David Sklar
View the rest of the poem on the Poetry Crisis Line’s new Ko-Fi page here.
[Disclosure: David Sklar is the creator of the Poetry Crisis Line, which would normally be a conflict of interest, but it’s his birthday.]
Category: Poetry Crisis Line Illustrated
Naomi Shihab Nye calls the Poetry Crisis Line (part 2 of 2)
Naomi Shihab Nye calls the Poetry Crisis Line (part 1 of 2)
If All Poems Were Limericks (illustrated): The Night Before Christmas
Icing the Body Electric
Charles Reznikoff calls the Poetry Crisis Line
Inigo Montoya calls the Poetry Crisis Line
Giorgos Seferis calls the Poetry Crisis Line (illustrated)
Read the original here.
Cattle adapted from cave paintings in Lascaux, France. Warriors adapted from Greek pottery.
If All Poems Were Limericks: “Maybe Dats Your Pwoblem Too” by James W. Hall
Crow calls the Poetry Crisis Line
Crow’s dialogue based on “Examination at the Womb Door” in Crow by Ted Hughes. [and yeah, in the original he’s the one answering the questions, but that would result in a caller who just says “Death. Death. Death.” most of the time.]