Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Epodic. What can be assumed from a poet who writes in an epodic style?

Takes the middle road? Playing safe with rhythm? Or perhaps, indecisive? Wants it all?


When the cook makes a salad by slicing the radishes lengthwise and chopping the Persian cucumbers in small bites, is she preparing food with epodic flare?


Breakfast salad (fashioned in an epodic manner)

Persian cucumbers
largish radishes
honey tangerines
blue cheese
almonds
pepper
olive oil
fresh herb of choice


An aside: if you have long legs, will your stride reflect such? If you be a poet with long legs, will you avoid writing short lines?

1 comment:

  1. On the hopeful murmurs of a breeze
    once blown

    She takes her fortunes to the edge
    & sets them down

    Ignores the turning of the cards and dice
    To wander

    No one pretends to know the outcome
    of such behavior

    Mixed up as it is with desire and dangerous
    appetities

    Watch, say the ancient spirits, for the five
    hindrances

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