Thanks, Doug. The poem's form - as in the "Trellis" series entire - is determined by syllable counts from Trevor Joyce's lines who 'constrains' much of his poems by word counts!
Sometimes, my practice, may come off as "forced" in the process of meeting a constraint. Or maybe the 'halts' in the one syllable per line count can be like little tweaks off a clarinet or sax before moving into a longer phrase.
I like the process in that the constraints compel explorations and surprises that in no way - it seems to me - that I could ever predetermine in advance of the writing process. Ideally, I want to be as surprised as the reader.
Stephen
Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote: Fascinating, what's you're doing here, Stephen, but I'm not sure I
understand what in the process leads to that series of one-word lines,
which don't feel quite as 'moving' (as in rhythm) to me as the rest....
But, the finds here, yeah.
Doug
On 25-Mar-08, at 6:13 PM, Stephen Vincent wrote:
> No facts, Ip-
> So, what
> Love favors
> Is a pure malt
> Not mango milkshake
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