How else does a poem guarantee close-up and distance clear-cut seeing? Details and the big picture.
Can the same be said of the cook? An onion close up is not the same as one slow-roasted. To which add cut Compari tomatoes. Perhaps a trace of cumin.
Close and not so
ReplyDeletethat being the parallel embrace
of things that matter and also do not
the laying down of grass mats
before sleep
the taking up of them
upon waking
and all the sounds of the night
profuse and distantly
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