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Beginning: The hinge between past and future swings wide within us.

Ending: This was a radical pronouncement.

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Oooh. That has me itching to hear you read the full cento. Soon!

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I fooled around with it tonight and removed some sentences but kept the beginning and end. I feel like I kinda had 2 of them in there. I might still end up with 2 if I find the right magic to knit the 2nd one together.

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Two centos! The magic is flowing ... I'm all smiles.

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Beginning: the ideas that we have

Ending: let a new thing emerge

Question about cento process... are we supposed to keep exact punctuation of original piece - capital letters, etc. and can we add different punctuation for emphasis?

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To my understanding, you may "tweak" punctuation, capitalization, etc. Not many rules to follow!

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My opening line for the Cento is, "I want to hug more." My closing line is "Be the window."

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Working on it....flights of fancy keep swinging me away, but I come back and find more jewels

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Nothing wrong with "flights of fancy"! Have soft landings.

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