Florilegium: Hag-Seed

Recently, I spent a year reading with the intention to look out for "sparklets" that jumped out at me from the text and to then arrange these gems into found poems, or florilegia. This poem is one I constructed from the novel Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood, which is a re-imagining of Shakespeare's A Winter's Tale.

She did not exist

in the usual way

The brain completes the illusion

as much as anyone can

All you need is a few items: 

the right words in the right order

Working out his own destiny

would have been a shock to her

From now on the boy will be 

a magic flying blue alien 

 

 

Library book with calendula and scabiosa