Is this a good prose poem? Deborah
And here's one of Russell Edson's prose poems:
COUNTING SHEEP
A scientist has a test tube full of sheep. he wonders if he should
try to shrink a pasture for them.
They are like grains of rice.
He wonders if it is possible to shrink something out of existence.
He wonders if the sheep are aware of their tininess, if they have any
sense of scale. perhaps they think the test tube is a glass barn ...
He wonders what he should do with them; they certainly have less meat
and wool than ordinary their commercial value?
He wonders if they could be used as a substitute for rice, a sort of
woolly rice ...
He wonders if he shouldn't rub them into a red paste between his
fingers.
He wonders if they are breeding, or if any of them have died.
He puts them under a microscope, and falls asleep counting them ....
Mairéad Byrne
Assistant Professor of English
Rhode Island School of Design
Providence, RI 02903
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