will be a departure from the slam-politics commentary of the last few weeks. Wanna give the folks going to Nats something to think about…poetically, that is.
I’m thinking of actually dissecting the process of how a line leads to a poem, using an actual line I’ve got kicking around right now — talking about how the line may be the first or the last, may be the third or the twenty fifth, may even disappear entirely by the end of the process, but how it poses itself as a starting block from which to leap into the poem.
Rather than dissect an older poem, I’m going to do it with an entirely new one — constructing a meta-poem while the poem is being created; this way, I have no “killing the goose that laid the golden egg” stigma or trauma to deal with, because I will have no real attachment to the poem.
My question is: is this something people will read, or just a giant jerk-off? And: if I go through the motions here on LJ this week, will you jump in and comment, knowing that I may end up bringing your thoughts into the column (with attribution at the end, of course)?
Hm?
Dark Matter 