San Jose Poetry Center: Saturday, March 24, 1990
Poetry Workshop with Gary Snyder & Norman Fischer

Norman Fischer, Abbott of the San Francisco Zen Center, handed out a sheet
of 60 randomly-chosen words. The 10-minute speed writing exercise was to
use as many of these words in a poem. (Here's my poem that day.)

Acacia
Ankles
Arguments
Asparagus
Belie
Black
Bland
Bread
Cajole
Crate
Crystal
Decorate
Disguise
Elegant
End
Eyesight
Flakes
Flyswatter
Formality
Free
Freezing
Ginger
Gracious
Guns
Hammer
Kick
Kissing
Leaving
Lists
Looms
Manly
Mounting
Obligate
Oil
Peach
Pearls
Plates
Prod
Rattle
Remember
Rose
Scoop
Seal
Shadows
Shudder
Sidle
Skulk
Slaver
Snow
Socks
Spatula
Splits
Spruces
Taller
Terse
Toss
Tractors
Wheeze
Whole
Yellow