1/30: K. Iver

We are starting off strong with "Short Film Starting My Beloved's Living Body."

Read the poem here: https://www.kleeiver.com/new-page

Ok, now finish sobbing, catch your breath from the gorgeous way the author uses scene cuts to create a collage as well as a short film of the poem.

Your prompt: write a poem in the form of screen cuts. You are a character, but that is revealed at least halfway through the poem. Focus on the scenes, the landscape, the visual crops that memory has.

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