The poem is read from top to bottom;
the numbers are the order in which lines were contributed.
All are welcome to add any number of lines, anywhere in the poem.
/msg me your line(s) and location: beginning, end, or between two adjacent lines.
Punctuation and capitalization will be adjusted to accommodate new lines.
To read the poem as it was after only N lines were added,
skip over any line with a number greater than N.
Drive a wedge in.
12 | It was late summer, | etouffee |
11 | only five weeks left--- | Rapscallion |
24 | lucky number; five points of a star; and yet | Pandeism Fish |
13 | a typical sidewalkless suburb | etouffee |
1 | in a most unusual location. | raincomplex |
6 | She kept the most usual routine. | OldMiner |
10 | Walking along the railroad tracks | Estelore |
3 | and before dawn burned away the night's dew, | raincomplex |
2 | she met an unusual man | NanceMuse |
4 | who was drifting among the flowers, | GhettoAardvark |
9 | sitting by an old fence, and his mind was | raincomplex |
16 | carefully sublimating bad intentions, lest one escape | colonelmustard |
5 | like a wayward milkseed tossed on the wind. | GhettoAardvark |
7 | With a dose of sweet-laced courage, | cassparadox |
15 | she strolled up, and leaned forward to | grundoon |
17 | speak; but his roughshod pre-emption | DTal |
14 | saccharine, burning his throat, | DimView |
18 | caught his voice. And she leaned over him still | raincomplex |
19 | inquisitive, wondering how he could be parched | etouffee |
8 | with a bottle in his hand, | The Custodian |
21 | wrapped her fingers round his, a question rising, | tentative |
25 | voice like thunder, shudder and plunder | IWhoSawTheFace |
20 | and then I woke up. | Wasps |
22 | Unhurried, alone, slowly rising from the sheets, | tentative |
26 | a tangle of legs, hair & candy crumbs warm from late | synechdouche |
23 | morning body heat, not quite a sweat | lizardinlaw |
26 lines by 19 noders