Monday, February 15, 2010

How do poems taste?

Bitter, sweet, sour, salty, and, more recently, savory are the Western options. Does each word have an inherent taste or it is in the aggregate --phrase, sentence. Does a writer develop a particular taste palette? Add smell to taste, you arrive at flavor. Perhaps, it’s opt to speak of the flavor of a poem. Then again, perhaps, this is too personal and best left to an individual’s oral cavity.

By the way, do you think ears taste sound?


I love savory -- as taste, as herb, as word, as sound.

1 comment:

  1. Stowaway


    The boy runs round and round
    waving his stick of fire
    A pie for my mommy
    a pig and pie for me!


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    We told her sorryness again
    and again you see


    ****

    She cannot button all the


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    no fair, autumn
    I'm not touching you

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