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STINK could easily have produced nothing but gross-out jokes, but this group found quite a few different uses for it. Jonesy embraces the filth and somehow turns dumpster stink into appetite, Mark makes odor one of two unpleasant outcomes in a tense little standoff, and Diana uses it both as a mundane discovery in a brother’s closet and as a wonderfully blunt standard for art criticism.
Elsewhere, STINK becomes memory, mold, victory, mystery, and even something capable of remorse. The stronger pieces gave the smell a job beyond merely being unpleasant: it revealed something, changed the meaning of the scene, or became the punch line the earlier constraints had been steering toward.
Jonesy 5/6
I grab LUNCH OFTEN
from the dumpster at SAINT Luke’s.
Relish STING of STINK!
Diana Marie 3/6
Poem 1
Brother out of RANGE
SNOOP through his drawers and closet
Just the STINK of socks
Poem 2
CHORE of the critic…
Abstract: BUSTY nude holds STALK
Art that doesn’t STINK?
Debbie Wilson 3/6
What does FLOAT in pool?!
THUMP the kid that left it there
STINK I won’t forget
Robo 5/6
Oh the CHASE will SPOIL
SWIFT STING of black scorpion
Sweet STINK of success
Mark 5/6
RAISE up, no SWIFT moves
Sit perfectly STILL, don’t blink
Options…. STING or STINK
Lari 4/6
In COVER of NIGHT
one QUINT left her bed to see
From where was that STINK!
auntie jj 4/6
I CRAVE trip to GUILD
rooms were MOIST, artworks exposed
STINK of mold prevailed
Mick 3/6
Poem 1
golden mermaid’s PURSE,
found and SHOWN a lively pup —
no STINK among sharks
Poem 2
the dark, foul PURSE hung,
SHOWN on his shoulder, dripping —
a remorseful STINK