Matter.
As it is and does.
Of course, I often think of the title as the first line of the poem. Sometimes, it's the entire poem.
How something begins matters -- whether speaking of the body or a title/text.
So what was today's breakfast?
a pot of black tea early on
then:
cut Persian cucumber
strawberries
smoked salmon (flavored by ginger & tea)
manilla mango
I admit, not the usual 1950s breakfast in New Jersey.
Hypotheticals (continued)
ReplyDeleteSome lines of verse or prose could be sent
The foreman would receive them and wonder
had the enemy found his address or workplace
had the friend sent a code of warning or support
the ambiguity of the message
might then elicit a response
and thus an action could be taken
to counter further ill effects of his deeds