O, I’m the man who sailed those early seas with a pair of wooden spoons on an oil drum, holding quiet conversations with an early moon. Key West sank downward under massive clouds you will feel against your ankles as you pass through.
Langston Hughes, “Let America Be America Again”
Elizabeth Alexander, “Praise Song for the Day”
Amy Lowell, “Lilacs”
Wallace Stevens, “Farewell to Florida”
Lucie Brock-Broido, “Domestic Mysticism”
NOTE: This cento’s title comes from a portion of a line from “The Evening Darkens Over,” by Robert Bridges.
I love the Cento and this one is seamless. Here's one of mine:
https://www.terrain.org/2022/poetry/meryl-natchez/
Ingenious!