This one is a true renga (unlike my earlier solo renga), which means it is a collaborative poem where two (or more) people alternated verses. This is one that I did with Nick Driscoll, one of my friends from college. For those of you unfamiliar with this type of poem, rengas are a Japanese type of poem that alternate stanzas of 5-7-5 with 7-7's. Each stanza is written by a different person (or by alternating people, in a group), and should be connected to the stanza before and after it, but not the other stanzas. Also, each stanza is supposed to introduce a twist from the previous stanza....
Trickling water flows
Susurrating sweetly with
The wind. She listens.
The fan whooshes softly round
Lifts my hair with cooling breeze
Yet the rolling heat sizzles
Sweat breaks in sharp streaks
And I gasp as grass crisps brown.
Thunder booms and lightning streaks
But dark clouds still bring no rain
Like ebony smoke
Rumbling in the heat, dark shouts
The clouds bark and spit.
Hamburger patties look like
Charcoal briquettes after "foom"
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