a collaborative poem · revived

Add your line
to the night air.

the night air is a community poem built the way the French surrealists built Exquisite Corpse — everyone contributes a small piece blind, without seeing where anyone else's fits, and the whole only exists once it's read together. Answer the five prompts below in a word or two each. They'll be woven into the growing poem alongside everyone who's answered since 2020.

adjective — a word describing a quality: hollow, restless, tender…
noun — a person, place, or thing: commute, small talk, the gym…
verb — an action: linger, check in, slow down…
adjective — a word describing a quality: quiet, endless, strange…
noun — a person, place, or thing: my sister, the garden, sleep…
added

Your line is
in the air.

It'll appear in the poem within a minute or two — Google Sheets needs a moment to catch up. Go read the whole thing →