Wording Poem by Daniel Y.

Wording



even now as you read for the first time again
your lips unmoving
________________like clothespins.
a maybe wry smile.
you became a quiet house
________by necessity
________________in the reading…
in the reading
I write your thoughts:
pink elephant.

in your contorted reading pose, a question
thinking of me
thinking of you sitting reading
turningchurning

on paper wording words
the wordst ofall wrlds
Jblmed lttrs
R Hrd t'read Nd nevr
sense make
yet
i love you that
Peanutbutter-enjambment sandwhich.

words, a poet does
not mince.

Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Topic(s) of this poem: poetry
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Daniel Brick 27 October 2014

The last line WORDS, A POET DOES / NOT MINCE strikes me as an ideal closing to the poem, because the adage, still slightly distorted, shows the poet restoring his control over language which has gone WILD with his full support and participation (I imagine) . We go from the reader in a contorted posture to words contorted way beyond any semantic or grammatical order - they've even lost their spelling. I can tell a lot depends on stanza 2 with the mirror lines THINKING OF ME/THINKING OF YOU and TURNINGCHURNING It strikes me that sense and nonsense are inextricably mixed by that point in the poem and then it gradually disentangles leading to the closing lines in which we can perceive the restoration of order. It's as if someone bellowed, Hey, words aren't supposed to be minced up like meat!

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