Permutation, a variation on cut-up poetry, involves taking a phrase and rearranging it to create a new phrase or poem. Making sense is not a requirement of permutation poetry. As an example, we read Brion Gysin's "Rub out the Write Word." Then we took Carl Sandburg's famous poem, "Fog," and created brand new permutation poems from its twenty-one words.
Cat haunches, silent fog
harbor moves, little
city feet and sits
comes the over it
and on the on then on.
Pedro Antonino 404
Cat on little fog. Comes on silent city. Then
looking over the harbor.
It sits on haunches and moves on
feet.
Mariana Beltran 404
little cat feet comes on fog the city looking sits it.
silent over harbor and then and on moves on haunches.
Ramon Calvillo 403
The little cat feet
sits on fog looking over
harbor and city it comes
on and then moves on
silent haunches.
Caesar Campos 403
The fog sits looking
over harbor and cat
feet. Then little
silent haunches moves
on. City moves on. It
comes on.
Julian Castro 403
the cat feet
it on then
sits fog looking
little comes
and moves
on silent
on haunches
over harbor
and city
Mayra Diaz 407
The little cat feet on
fog
Looking on harbor and
city
Comes over silent
haunches
It sits
and then moves on
Araceli Escutia 407
Comes fog the
On cat little feet.
Looking it sits
City harbor and over
Silent on haunches
Moves then and on
Mayra Gallardo 407
Haunches on harbor
Silent city fog
It sits over on cat
Little feet comes on
The looking and moves and
then
Ivan Gil 407
The little cat feet comes on fog
silent haunches and city on harbor
over looking it moves on and then sits.
Flor Gonzalez 403
On the little cat feet fog comes.
It sits looking on silent haunches
and then moves on over harbor
and city.
Arely Miranda 403
little fog feet moves on
the city looking silent
it sits on haunches
and then over harbor
cat comes on
and
Janet Morales 403
silent
The fog moves
over harbor.
And city on
silent haunches.
Little cat feet
comes and sits.
Looking then on
it on.
Mayra Nevarez 407
Comes fog the
little feet on cat
harbor looking
city sits and
it on then
and
over
moves
haunches
on
silent
Marisol Pacheco 407
comes on
moves
over
cat's
little
feet?
The fog
on haunches
silent looking
on city and
harbor sits and then it!
Yesenia Pimentel 403
looking on then fog
comes little cat feet
moves on haunches city
over it and sits harbor
and on the silent.
Jesus Pulido 403
Cat comes on little feet.
The city sits silent.
Fog moves on.
Looking over harbor.
And then it haunches
and
on.
Wendy Ramirez 404
The fog comes
It sits looking on little cat feet.
Over silent harbor city on haunches, and,
on, then, and moves.
Paola Reyes 404
the fog and
little cat feet
sits looking over
harbor on silent
haunches and on
city comes on
then moves
on.
Lorissa Rocha 407
The feet on comes and
Little fog cat
It on then and
Over silent city
harbor haunches on
Moves sits looking
Yovany Ruiz 404
comes on the fog
it sits looking over
little cat feet. Haunches
silent on harbor and city.
Moves on and then.
Jose Salazar 407
then on
comes looking little
fog the silent cat feet on
haunches over
moves
harbor sits
and it city on and
on
Tanya Sanchez 404
fog looking and city silent sits harbor over
then on feet on haunches comes moves
like the it cat on and.
Vanessa Tovar 404
Fog the comes
little feet on cat.
Sits it looking
harbor and over city
silent haunches on
move and then on.
Eduardo Vega 404
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