Is anyone interested much in prose poems? I recently read a review of an anthology of prose poems but I canīt remember where or what the title and publisher of the anthology were. Does anyone know? Or does anyone know of a good source of information about this form? I feel my lack of knowledge and would like to learn more.
A Portrait
1.
For one pursued through life by the sound of breaking glass it was a question of the picking up of pieces, a slow putting together. Life took on the appearance of a collage by Braque. A train ticket turned up here, something that might have been a walking stick rested in the corner.
2.
Mirrors exhibited an inexplicable propensity to fracture on his approach. He gazed at the picture revealed; here was an eye behind an ear, looking at something he wasnīt looking at, seeing something he would never admit having seen. His nose, disjointed, was sliding down his cheek. Apparently alien images caught shivers of glass at odd angles. Here was a bent and elderly man impinging on his temple. There, again, the walking stick.
3.
He sought ways to develop space vigorously. He pulled apart different planes, reassembled them to confine 360 degrees within four corners, to synthesise the remembered and the seen. He was surrounded by the internal as well as the external.
4.
At the fourth stage he stepped outside and engaged with the problems of light and dark. It was necessary for him to use all his knowledge of geology to interpret this terrain. He hoped thus to discover those subterranean forces that had done this to him.
Mike
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