24-Hour Poetry Marathon

Poetry inspired by random data and statistics. From the Permian extinction to marriage rates in the US.

Storified by #24MAG · Sat, May 11 2013 05:10:13

Long before our oldest ancestors mud-puppied their way onto the beaches with the sea in their wombs, #24MAG

— Jenny Williamson · Sat, May 11 2013 02:05:27

When I woke they'd put a doorway in my skull, round as a bone moon. #24MAG

— Jenny Williamson · Fri, May 10 2013 15:35:40

Crowned in showy tentacles, they came in a cacophony of shapes #24MAG

— Jenny Williamson · Sat, May 11 2013 00:05:27

No one expected the Bryozoa to hold on as long as they did. #24MAG

— Jenny Williamson · Fri, May 10 2013 23:05:22

Then the Orthida, already ancient, stoic and single-valved #24MAG

— Jenny Williamson · Fri, May 10 2013 22:05:22

It was the Conodonts that went first. Long soft sea-ribbons, unlikely predators #24MAG

— Jenny Williamson · Fri, May 10 2013 21:05:49

96% of All Marine Life Died During the Permian Extinction. #24MAG

— Jenny Williamson · Fri, May 10 2013 20:05:16

It showed me a shipwreck listing down second avenue, boarded and shut. #24MAG

— Jenny Williamson · Fri, May 10 2013 19:20:28

It showed me a horizon chewed by skylilne, it showed me a drowned carousel #24MAG

— Jenny Williamson · Fri, May 10 2013 18:20:20

This city has a million faces, and of these any given hundred are turned toward you, ready for the closeup. #24MAG

— Jenny Williamson · Fri, May 10 2013 17:15:14

The ghosts passed through trailing a terrible howling, the way the wind haunts a ruin. #24MAG

— Jenny Williamson · Fri, May 10 2013 16:35:48

Call it fear of commitment. Call it what you will. #24MAG

— Jenny Williamson · Fri, May 10 2013 14:35:36

I can think of worse ends than to wear one's alone like a crowded city full of daylight. #24MAG

— Jenny Williamson · Fri, May 10 2013 13:16:11

Tweeting lines from poetry I'm writing for #24MAG. Stay tuned...

— Jenny Williamson · Fri, May 10 2013 12:04:39

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