Stephen on target!this sounds like Janet and myself -sometimes our
mishearing leads to interesting conservations? Conversations!!
Patrick on the blink
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Sent: 01 September 2009 18:36
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Subject: Snap - Vincent
"Your son Stephen is on the phone."
"Sea Gull?"
"No, mom, I am your son 'Stephen'."
"Oh, I guess I am in the wrong season."
Mix a little dementia with bad hearing,
the poetry keeps rolling on out.
Some will argue, and I tend to agree, that poets often suffer from aphasia.
In the dark gap between the object and its name, a certain kind of
inventiveness must come in to play in which alternative words, even sounds,
gather up to lay a language down on whatever it is. It's in that chemistry
that we get fresh 'news' - rather than a repetition of cliches, conventional
definitions, and what have you. Of course, such innovations provoke
resistance or, if totally wrong headed, compassion or ridicule.
However, the lternative formations might produce new ways of saying
something familiar. In this case of my mother, another level of applicable
meaning may also emerge. At 93, she frequently says or implies that she is
old, useless, etc. Indeed, she has come to a point in life where she
perpetually finds herself "in the wrong season." Nevertheless, her
imagination keeps pulling down those words and phrases, insistent on getting
some accuracy on the condition of things. Until we go mute, I suspect most
of us, as poets, word by word, will remain in the same grappling contest.
Stephen V
http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
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