Spaces-Catch-22 Poem by Brian Strand
Spaces-Catch-22
A window pane shatters
Nobody makes a home run
Sunday, October 15, 2017
Topic(s) of this poem: home
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spaces-CATCH-22
A window pane shatters
Nobody makes a home run
Note: 'spaces' is an imagism form.It has a title and three line, the middle being blank and left to the readers imagination. The white 'spaces as the middle line is an unsaid poignant pause or image.
Gael Turnbull(1928-2004, a Scottish doctor-poet created the imagist Spaces form in his collection Briefly (1967) a two line poem with a larger than usual space
Turnbull called poems using his device ‘Spaces', and noted of these ‘The visual "space" is, a pause or hesitation, even a temporary dislocation of attention'.
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6: 09PMShow Details
spaces-CATCH-22
A window pane shatters
Nobody makes a home run
Note: 'spaces' is an imagism form.It has a title and three line, the middle being blank and left to the readers imagination. The white 'spaces as the middle line is an unsaid poignant pause or image.
Gael Turnbull(1928-2004, a Scottish doctor-poet created the imagist Spaces form in his collection Briefly (1967) a two line poem with a larger than usual space
Turnbull called poems using his device ‘Spaces', and noted of these ‘The visual "space" is, a pause or hesitation, even a temporary dislocation of attention'.
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8/6/2026 9:17:59 AM # rel_20260803T153344Z_4267e77
Thevlate Gael Turnbull published his interpretation of his SPACES form in a limitedv edition Chapbook in 1987.My example above is one of my many imagist style versions of this white spaces form, triggered by the terminal caesura at the end of line 1