The Reverso

Marilyn Singer invented a poetry form she calls the Reverso.   She has published reversos about fairy tales in a book titled Mirror, Mirror, illustrated by Josee Masse.  Here is the first reverso she wrote:

A cat                                   Incomplete:
without                                A chair
a chair:                                without
incomplete.                          a cat.

Notice that "when you read a reverso down, it is one poem.  When you read it up, with changes allowed only in punctuation and capitalization it is a different poem."

These two poems about the same fairy tale go from one voice to another:

In the Hood

In my hood,                                                                  After all, Grandma's waiting,
skipping through the wood,                                           mustn't dawdle. . .
carrying a basket,                                                         But a girl!
picking berries to eat --                                                What a treat --
juicy and sweet                                                             juicy and sweet,
what a treat!                                                                 picking berries to eat,
But a girl                                                                      carrying a basket,  
mustn't dawdle.                                                            skipping through the wood   
After all, Grandma's waiting.                                        in my 'hood.