Tuesday, October 26, 2010

How is a poet like a magician?

It’s all in front of you on the page, in your ear. Sleight of hand, the edit. Makes the rabbit disappear. Makes the rabbit reappear.





Same at a cook’s hand. A few straightforward ingredients. Add an herb. To not follow a recipe is to edit. Discernible weight to the outcome. Tuber and meringue.

1 comment:

  1. Scorecard

    win at wondering
    no pin pulled under
    a strategy for it

    there in the darkened room

    two shawls, one ripped
    a battered stove top
    four blazing centrifugals
    and a meandering gaze

    elemental timbre

    forgery complete

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