Sometimes I go back through my notebooks from Graduate school and make centos (collage poems) from phrases I find in the pages. This is the fifth of a series of centos from my notebooks.
now is a now and this is a this
Notebook Cento #5
by Debi
a now is a now is a now
creating space
between self and outside
inside and out
1st person and 3rd
disjunctive
disruptive
find a place, not a position
not an either/or
but an and and an and and an and and …
respect the thing itself
this is this, is this, is this—
rather than this is that