Nine Waterfall Poems
First published in Spring: The Journal of the E. E. Cummings Society #6, October 1997, page 106. I call these waterfall poems because of how the letters might be perceived as falling from a higher level to a lower level.
rain rain
rain rain
icon i icon con
icon ico icon icon
vacant vac vacant va
vacant vacan vacant vacant
bladder bl bladder blad b
bladder bladd bladder bladder bladder
flame fla flame flame f
flame flam flam flame flame
libido libido libido libido libido
li bid libi libid libi libido
together together together tog
tog toget together together
nightowl nightowl nightowl nigh
nightow nightow ni ghtowl nightowl
vowel vow vowel vowe
vowel vowe vowel vowel
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