acrostics one and two

First letters in each line make a word, phrase, or sentence.

Exercise Uno:

Single Acrostic

Write a word/phrase/sentence down the side and then try to fill in the words. Best written at top speed.

BABY SITTER

Of course we don’t know much;
next to nothing, only the vaguest details,
we might say.

Across oceans of ambivalence,
roads, winding around passion,
did we stop to breathe? Did
we once take a moment, and,
earnestly, count what has been
made or what had been destroyed?
Are we made to worship this
reality? On the dining-room
chair: hardened macaroni, a golden
hair, a sticky blob of warm vanilla.

Exercise Dos

Double Acrostic

Make a phrase on both sides of the line


another girl has
negotiated with a guru:
drug dealing aphrodisiac
of a part-time patch
the man did not know
her heart, ripped into
ephemeral fleets of promise
revealed only to the greats