Really love this passage!
informatively, looking
for all the world at first,
like
workmanlike,
jobbing sentence components)
and then,
(right under your eyes as
it were,
before you're aware)
transform
through dent of odd
placement
or
line
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From: Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
To: POETRYETC <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tue, Jul 21, 2015 3:00 pm
Subject: Drifters
Drifters
First drift
Can words drift
into poetry,
(begin prosaically,
informatively, looking
for all the world at first,
like
workmanlike,
jobbing sentence components)
and then,
(right under your eyes as
it were,
before you're aware)
transform
through dent of odd
placement
or
line
turn,
into
thought-provocative
perception-inverters,
mood-changers,
joy
inspirers,
propellers
into the
uncanny?
Second drift
Can words
drift into poetry?
Beginning prosaically,
informatively, looking
for all
the world,
to be workmanlike,
jobbing sentence components,
then right beneath
your eyes,
as it were,
before you're aware,
transforming,
through dent of
odd
placement
or line
turn,
into
mood-changers,
joy-inspirers,
perception-inverters,
propellers
into uncanny
mind zones?
bw
22 .7.15
Preferences, other ideas, people of the
poetryetc?
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