Hi Gary,
I'm really taken by the way this piece uses its white spaces.
I was wondering about the line, "bright as noon on the painted desert" and
the following words, "vegas at midnight" - I wasn't sure how to connect them
- but then I began to see that I could keep on reading and my wondering what
to do becomes part of the poem!
Bob
>From: Gary Blankenship <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: lacuna
>Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 10:15:18 -0700
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>A poem is made up of words and the spaces between them.
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>-- Williams Carlos Williams
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>empty spaces the width of paper
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>between stanzas
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>empty spots the height of letters
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>between words
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>after a line nothing to capture
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>our attention
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>unless nothing precedes
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>what we see
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>before me white
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>hollow
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>vacant
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>void
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>bright as noon on the painted desert
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>vegas at midnight
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>dark as a mind unable to grasp
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>how to nurture one thought into
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>words
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>lines
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>stanzas
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>and the empty spaces that hold them
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>Gary's book, A River Transformed at
>http://www.lulu.com/content/178110<http://www.lulu.com/content/178110>
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>Gar's blog at http://garydawg.blogspot.com/<http://garydawg.blogspot.com/>
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