Which is to ask -- in our minds do words exist without color, shape, even taste? Are there words which are not springboards to silence? Can such words create a poem? I’d like to hear from you; please email a comment. Thanks.
Returning to cooking, Mark Bittman has authored two brilliantly creative tomes, sans color illustration of any of the dishes. I taste and see every recipes as I thumb through:
How to Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food, Wiley Publishing, Inc,1998.
How to Cook Everything Vegetarian: Simple Meatless Recipes for Great Food, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2007.
No blues this time after a drive
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Only to find a word or two
recently posted and think it was meant
for me
How we want the sun to warn us off
if the ship is about to hit a rock
or if the shelf is empty
I left my house and a warm bed
for such a word as fortune
She asks for nothing you can see
but names the dreams in colors
A clever diver through the reeds
Could never hope to find her
Oh well the storm keeps progressing
Slick and cold in its ascension
No blues for this fruit eater
Before a drive like that
oh yes, words by themselves often create or evoke the color or the picture. and the letters themselves often allow me to spin out into a different space. sometimes the presence of a picture or color or illustration is actually counter productive -- it limits expectations and i find that frustrating. but then again i am a b/w photog as well as writer and i think visually....
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