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Warm Up #23

Enjambment

Enjambment
The running-over of a sentence or phrase from one poetic line to
the next, without terminal punctuation; the opposite ofendstopped. William Carlos WilliamssBetween Wallsis one
sentence broken into 10 enjambed lines:

Between the Walls


the back wings
of the
hospital where
nothing
will grow lie
cinders
in which shine
the broken
pieces of a green
bottle

Warm Up

Create your own poem of at least 10 lines using enjambment.

Rewrite Between the Walls as prose (in a paragraph).

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