Be scannable might be a good advice for a prose writer. But if the reader of your poetry is jumping a para, theres not much left to scan.
Woman mined. begins with a commonplace
snap you with an ultraviolet camera,
show you what you've done to your skin just
by living.....
Carolyn Creedon has jumped from a quotidian scene in a specific setting, a cosmetic department , from the material to the emotional space of a life time.
Exercise: Take a procedure done at any place that offers service - doctors, hair salon (or car wash) and see if you can hop onto the next circle post leading to the altar at the center of the lake.
Another exercise: Create out of tornado of fish.
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