‘Three Things Transported Together’

Nicole Burdick is a teacher and freelance writer living in Denver, CO.

“This piece was inspired in Adam Crothers’ Ugliness Studio where we considered different perspectives of ugliness in language and form and then tried to ugly-up our poems. This particular prompt went: “write an ‘ugly’ poem about something you find physically beautiful, or write a ‘beautiful’ poem about something you find physically ugly.” Remembering Ecuador’s tremendous exportation of roses, then the gross measure of the cut flower industry, I started to delve into trade statistics on flowers which eventually led through other items largely transported on planes. I loved the various forms of ugly which presented themselves in the virtual meander.”