Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Confessional. Does poetry tip toward the confessional?

What is being confessed - grammar grievances? Seriously (though grammar be of weight & import), no matter how cloaked in the impersonal, can a poem be devoid of the poet's experience & feeling?
Robotic poetry? Artificial intelligent poetry? Science is being confessed.


From a meal can you derive a hint of the cook's joys. Of her sins. Sinful food; sinful poetry. The seesaw, stalled and, yet, the balance of the ripe weights impartially. & kindly

1 comment:

  1. Brazen 8

    spring the way it's always been
    crazy logic & pointy hats & sweater pins

    all gates open on the muddy roads
    all hearts open to the sea

    on the scrunchy horizon
    dreams and mountain air

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