...writing inside out (or outside in) means setting your physical or metaphorical inner bits out of doors, to be walked around and looked at from odd angles, as if they were monuments or mailboxes (as an example). Or it could be transforming your internal organs into flowers or letting a pack of four-year-old’s (human or otherwise) loose in your attic.
Write a poem today that illustrates your idea of what is inside-out.
two weeks ago I was a solid mass
The bulk of me a spiritual terrain
not to be traversed without an atlas
and a raincoat or a warning sign
turned inwards. Yet now, i lament
an impending softness, the gelid
remains of my hard core succumbing
to acidic factions of womanly guile.
Please let me be. Withdraw the troops
and decide monumentally to forgo
further exploration. I will not be held
responsible. There is victory in discovery
but there are also land mines of which
you will get no further warning.
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