A Non-Exhaustive But Potentially
Exhausting List of Past
Participial Formulations
 
The lump of a loan is lent.
The leaves of a volume are bound.
The hunch of a back is bent.
The grains of a shaker are ground.
 
The words of a sign are read.
The red of a sign is obeyed.
The red of a gash is bled.
The gush of a geyser is sprayed.
 
The bulb of a bell is dinged.
The tip of a tress is twirled.
The lobe of an ear is ringed.
The slope of a neck is pearled.
 
The hulk of a tractor is driven.
The bulk of a barrow is wheeled.
The hand of a girl is given.
The glare of a face is steeled.
 
The shape of a shirt is tailored.
The X of a pretzel is braided.
The path of a ship is sailored.
The depth of a puddle is waded.
 
The loot of a thief is pocketed.
The hands of a crook are cuffed.
The date of a case is docketed.
The smoke of a pipe is puffed.
The prongs of a plug are unsocketed.
The flame of a wick is snuffed.

Steven Searcy

If you have any thoughts about this poem, Steven Searcy  would be pleased to hear them