One question spins another.
With pit?
Without pit?
While most poems on the page are flat or linear, enjambment brings a gentle curve. A curve reminiscent of that of olive. Somewhere in the past, poem & olive shared an ancestor -- bowl.
Bowls, of course, perfect containers for poems & olives. For that matter, pits.
Hypotheticals (continued)
ReplyDeleteHe folded this paper three times and then sent a message
to the purveyor of fruit, via his daughter, to come at once
and bring her most magnificent basket of fruit
and meet him at the edge of town at midnight
Placing his words of ambiguous warnings in his pocket
he set out for the gate of the city quite convinced
the plan would elicit a revealing outcome
and even put an end to the gloom endured by the town