Definitions. What's perfect? What's incomplete? Is "finished" (another word for "perfect") the opposite of "incomplete?" A meal or a dish can be incomplete. Or can be perfect. For instance,
the mixed squash dish (or is it squashes?) served Saturday evening at the hands of someone I never met but thanked and re-thanked with each forkful was sublime. Everyone at the gathering agreed. Strangers agreeing with strangers, strangers no longer. & there was no squash left.
By comparison, poems are never complete, never perfect. But grateful for a chance to communicate. Grateful for breath.
(H. cont.)
ReplyDeleteHe called for the waiter for it was time to leave
The journey must again commence with or without
the arrival of the fruit vendor, and he consulted his map
with the indications of direction so innocently drawn