> > Centred
> > 2005
> >
> Janet, forgive what may seem a "slash n burn" tactic, I just want you to
> know where my senses most perked up:
> >
> >
> > Sound surges up his spine, through his chest, shoulders, head,
> > into his eyes, into his hands on body, neck, strings, pick
...
That's ok Judy - it's normal in reviews to quote small parts of poems!
I'm glad you react to it the same way I do.
I'm still amazed at all those rhymes and echoes:
slightly/lightly/vital, Telecaster/delicately, line/spine,
hands/understands, understand/band, neck/pick/back.
Every one of those was accidental.
A lot of the short 'e' sounds were included on purpose, though.
I was looking at a photo of a guitarist and a line full of them
occurred to me, something like
"elegant fingers press the Telecaster's neck"
and the rest of the poem grew from there.
Most of my best work seems to happen this way.
I wonder if others have a similar process.
Where has everybody gone?
Janet
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Poems at Proximity:
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