What’s mullein, you ask? Rosette-forming summer blooming plants which set up dramatic spikes with five-petaled, circular flowers. With age, the spikes take their twists & turns. Dramatic and beguiling. A narrative plot of shape? Shape recognizes; the physicality of a poem informs meaning. Twists accumulate as the plant matures, as gravity has its will.
I often wonder the impact of gravity on a poem. Perhaps, a later consideration.
Now, consider the shape of food – its unexpected & appreciated twists & turns. Once this was dubbed “architectural food.” Food/word – all is in construction. & the surprise.
Rockets in her Hair
ReplyDeleteif in the sense of
then too much mustard on the
when is it we could have
hot dogged around the sanity
hard to fathom downwards
until watching up close
name calling on a cloudy day
inching around a question
clear water for just a minute
then into it, falling
like you like to
eleven times a day