index | found poems by ron reed

Here are links to several found poems I've assembled over the years. They are centos, "poetical works wholly composed of verses or passages taken from other authors, disposed in a new form or order." 

assembled poem | found, misread, and misheard | undated

seven found poems assembled from the pages of the new yorker | 2022

six found poems assembled from the pages of the new yorker | 2021

found poem assembled from the pages of the new yorker | 2020

four found poems assembled from the pages of the new yorker | 2019

Two robots are coming.

Hide the WD-40...

assembled from the pages of the new yorker | 2018

I'm probably going to be a mad scientist,

and make the original recipe for creating life on earth... 

assembled from the pages of the new yorker | 2017, #1

Musicians and night-club proprietors lead complicated lives...

assembled from the pages of the new yorker | 2017, #2

I know nothing about her but what I heard from the scuzbut on the streets...

assembled from the pages of the new yorker | 2017, #3

It came to pass in New York...

no use | february, 2017

gift wrap, old prescriptions, old chargers, broken headphones...

assembled from the pages of the new yorker | 2016

Other people's minds are a foreign country...

assembled from the pages of the new yorker | two poems, 2015

Earthlings are fragile, demanding, and germy...

define mysteries | from harper's magazine, december 2013

Movements of the lower lip in dance,
A work consisting of a hundred love lyrics...

assembled from the pages of the new yorker | 2012

The morning was cold and the sky was bright...

three dreams | collage poems assembled for 'dreams of kings + carpenters | 1986

God spoke.

My own true love...

perfect days | @inglee + luke walker

 

the poster is by @inglee

the photos of the miniature are by luke walker (@luke wretina)

all were found on the wim wenders foundation facebook page

loren wilkinson | easter eggs

Warmed under wings of unholy ghosts

On Holy Saturday the candy eggs 

Hatch and holler "buy me" 

From their cellophane sacks.

 

And in the night the children sleep

Tucked in plastic beds

With candy ducks in plastic grass

Quacking in their heads.

 

But in the April dawn

They enter the cool light of living rooms

Where color blooms in the corners.

Green beneath the chairs, scarlet in the cushions,

In its shadows the room hides sweetness like a tree.

 

For an instant the children wait surprised,

As women in an unexpected spring might wait

Before trilliums, and the singing birds,

And the emptiness of tombs.

tse hung seeto | south leed's garage, madison, wisconsin

 

snapshot | tom waits

 

photo | tools

 

assembled poem | found, misread, and misheard

Obviously, Montag now looks like a heel rather than a hero when he burns him up, but I don't like heroes, all is well. In 2014, his mother was accidentally killed by her own car when another motorist attempted to help her turn her vehicle around after fly-tipped rubbish blocked her path. The outrage was caused by heavy rains and landslides. Crows are out attempting to restore power where safe.

Did you hear about the film festival in Sweden where the audience is hypnotized before seeing a movie?

You can be persuaded to slough off the vacant feet.

Before settling on Tiny Tim, Herbert Khaury tested a variety of names: Emmett Swink, Texarkana Tex, Rollie Dell, Darry Dover, Judas K. Foxglove, and Larry Love. 

the kitchen of the main house | aldo balding

 

Aldo Balding

b. 1960, England

photos | evelyn hofer

 

Girl With Bicycle

Dublin, 1966

The Bowery

New York 1963

Anna and Emma

Dublin, 1966

Phoenix Park on Sunday

Dublin, 1966

Two Chairs

London, 1975

Blind Shepherd

Spain, 1963

Calder's Spoon

Roxbury, 1976

Gravediggers

Dublin, 1966

photo | karen mason | frost, bracebridge