Celebrating Living Poets: Marcela Sulak

We are at Day 6 – – almost a week into the Slice of Life Challenge for 2026, which runs all of March. This month, I’m celebrating a different living poet each day by using their collections to create a Cento poem; I take existing lines and weave them into a new “original” poem by mixing them in new ways. I first learned of Marcela Sulak through The Stafford Challenge last year, and today I’m using The Fault to create a Cento poem.

You can read about Marcela Sulak here and here.

O’er the Mill, a Rampart in Bloom

This morning on the bridge across the ancient mills

a tiny rampart is born

an orchestra of spontaneity. Please

allow that it’s supposed to be in bloom.

Lines from the Cento were taken from (in this order): To Listen One Must Love Seeds; Rampart; The Nest; Brazen

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