This exercise was to create “a fresh, cutting-edge, 20 lines or less poem using two or more of these overused, clichéd, and stale words: beautiful, bunny, grandma, trunks in the attic, rainbow, heart, pretty, & unicorn.” So, for fresh, I used all of them.

citta eht ni sknurt ekil     

daed si ynnub lufituaeb a   a beautiful bunny is dead

nwal eht no daed   dead on the lawn

nepo syal nosiop fo xob eht   the box of poison lays open

citta eht ni sknurt ekil   like trunks in the attic

esromer ni eulb si traeh s’amdnarG   Grandma’s heart is blue in remorse

ssarg eht ssorca ti gnitriuqs   squirting it across the grass

erehw sehsub eht otni   into the bushes where

egrog lliw nrocinu eht   the unicorn will gorge

ynnub gnillor kool kool   look look rolling bunny

wobniar a edam evah uoy   you have made a rainbow

tew gninnips tsal eno ekat   take one last spinning wet

kool neknurd ytterp   pretty drunken look