Sunday, March 4, 2012

Metonymy. Does a poet establish a personal metonymy?

And to what end? As if returning home to or with a basket of phrases. Do personal archetypes exist? What can be individualized from the collective of words?


Clearly, it's time for supper. A first -- sauteed oysters. Perhaps, a new metonymy. But signifying what? Or who?

1 comment:

  1. META-THAT

    she doesn't care about the laundry anymore
    it's just piled up and not even sorted
    that's how I know it's gone astray
    when order is out of order
    and combinations of asteroids spin in contrary directions all blasted about by sinful thoughts and scientific actions
    It's not hard to see beyond the dusty windows
    all the blooms forced out by weird weather
    Still it isn't any sign of relevance
    when I awake at 5 and the earthquake is at 5:33.
    Actually I think it's about time
    since they've been saying one leads to the other--summer in winter, oysters on the grill,
    socks left soaking all by themselves.

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