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Take a word/term/idea, similar to how Simone Muench focused on wolves, and search for poems that use that term/subject somewhere in the poem. 

1 Warm summer sun

2 The heat rises in distorted gold

3 Blistered apple, gold that melts

4 Our door was shut to the noon-day heat

5 In between the sun and moon

6 It would have to shine. And burn.

7 The sun has long been set 

8 Christmas hath a darkness

9 The sun that brief December day

-These are the authors that originally wrote the lines

1 Mark Twain

2 Maggie Smith

3 Hadara Bar-Nadav

4 Alfred Kreymborg

5 Pádraig Ó Tuama

6 Steve Scafidi

7 William Wordsworth

8 Christina Rossetti

9 John Greenleaf Whittier

I chose this exercise because it sounded really interesting. One thing that I struggle with myself as a writer is the creative piece. So, not surprisingly, I found this quite enjoyable but still creative. The topic/subject that I decided to write about was sun and sunshine, as well as heat. Instead of just every line talking about the sun, I tried to follow a pattern of sun lines followed by one about the heat. For these phrases all being from completely different poems, I think they came together well and you honestly might not even know they weren’t created for the same writing.