Saturday, September 10, 2011

Bamboo. Do poems exhibit bamboo qualities?

First, let's look at bamboo qualities. Quick growth. Flexibility. Comes in several colors. A system of rhizomes can crowd the stage in quick order. Poems overtake a page in a way that prose doesn't. Besides, I've always said poems have rhizomes.


Bamboo is catching on in the kitchen -- plates, bowls, platters, table runners. Even silverware. Floors. Of course, steamers. Oh those rhizomes.

1 comment:

  1. science in the unlikeliest places

    one lifts a fork and is subject

    predicate and conjunction

    out of the tundra marches a bear

    hungry and roaring for spring

    footsteps unheard, arms empty

    no sign of gallantry

    in the lures left behind

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