Monday Poetry Stretch - Reverso

My husband's been out of town for a few days, so in his absence I decided to treat myself to a book instead of the customary chocolate bunny for Easter. I have been reading and puzzling over the poems in Marilyn Singer's brilliant book Mirror, Mirror: A Book of Reversible Verse. (In total amazement, I might add.) Singer writes in a form she calls "reverso." The poems in the book are based on fairy tales and tell two sides of the same story. Here's the catch. The poems are inverses of one another. The second poem is created by reading the first poem in reverse (hence reverso).

Here's the example Singer provides in her note about the form.

A cat without a chair: incomplete

Incomplete: a chair without a cat.

The coolest thing about these is that whether you are reading them forwards or backwards, they work! You can learn more about the book by checking out this post at Seven Imp and this post at Writing and Ruminating.

So, what do you think? It seems an impossible task, but perhaps we could try writing some short poems similar to Marilyn's example. That, my friends, is the challenge. Leave me a note about your poem and I'll post the results here later this week.