2 centos by Deborah Purdy

Deborah Purdy created “It Came from Somewhere in the Sky” from Frederick George Scott’s Poems: Old and New (1900) and “Remember” from Twelve Poets: A Miscellany of New Verse (1918).

About the poems and the process of composing them, Deborah Purdy writes:

I compiled a list of words and phrases that I thought might work well together in terms of sound and/or meaning. I then started “auditioning” them next to each other until the lines came together as a poem.

Please click here to read “It Came from Somewhere in the Sky” and click here to read “Remember.”

As part of our submission call for volume 12, we invited poets to use 12 in some way in their poems. In the process paragraph following each poem, Deborah Purdy explains how 12 played a role in its creation.

Also by Deborah Purdy at Heron Tree: “Where It May Be,” “For the Same Reason,” “Other Signs,” “Enough,” “Try to Find a Reason,” “Gratitude Cento,” “Away from Home,” “The Right Words,” “At the Approach of Winter,” “The Lost Explorers from Somewhere,” and “Memory and Prophecy.”