Sunday, March 27, 2011

Unsettled. Do poems cause a reader to become unsettled?

As in unsettle to be settled. Tipped over and righted again. Imbalance follows balance follows imbalance. Breathing. Walking. Consider, walking a poem this afternoon -- rain or no rain. Avoid contact with placid poetry.


What's the equivalent in cooking? Whole onion (balance), cutting up the same (imbalance),roasting the pieces results in balanced joy. By the way, why is joy rarely singular?

1 comment:

  1. Like the topsy turvy stories
    in the patch below the berries
    seemed to say the rightest things
    about life in the lizard patch
    of river towns and tennis courts
    always the getting into a briar
    and then all hands scratched from it
    wiggling around in the underbrush
    while waiting for a bus
    it seesaws out of gumption
    and formulaic enterprises ask
    for change and tokens
    nothing equals itself again
    once it's been written down
    no where to go but back inside
    the scary welt of a full lasso

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