Recipe by Joe Hall, poems by Joe Hall & Cheryl Quimba
This is a relatively simple way to collaborate.
1. To begin, a list of 6 words is needed. I suggest that each person take a turn adding a word to the list. This way, the creative push and pull is present from the get-go. These words should be, ostensibly, unrelated.
2. Independently, each collaborator then writes six 3-word poems. Each of these poems must use a word from the list. (With articles and prepositions sprinkled in to taste, these poems can also be 4 words).
3. The 12 poems are then compiled in whatever order seems most compelling. Again, this process can be turn-based, with Collaborator A choosing the first poem, Collaborator B choosing the second poem, and so on.
The end result is something that reflects the play between two intelligences on an almost poetically microscopic scale.
Here's one result--
Wednesday -- Joe Hall & Cheryl Quimba
paraffin
coat
evenly
tallow tremble and paraffin
daffodil treble to husk
downpour
lest unhappy
treble
insouciant digital growth
sweet stroke
insouciant
slumber
flock here,
princely
diviner
flock unfolding in catalytic
cavalier gospel:
such outcry
converter hive gospel
wife shopper madcap
swing madcap
until dawn
