Monday, May 2, 2011

Comma. Are poems without a single comma bereft?

Bereft of what? A tad longer pause; slight contribution to silence?
Is punctuation a gestural roadmap to reading?


What is the equivalent to a comma in cooking? The pause before and after a slurp of oyster? Or soup?
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  1. SusanMay 16, 2011 at 8:43 AM

    Ten for the Taking

    deletion being a gesture as
    the hand beside the ear
    she wipes the plates clean
    but for a moment thinks
    of other water running
    steel sinks and the passage
    of her folks through

    extraordinary waves

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