5.24.2021

poem before the poem

The ‘proto-poem’—the poem composed only in the mind—will always be much better than the poem.

2 comments:

Joseph Hutchison said...

Not true. The poem is discovered only through multiple iterations. The "proto-poem," if it exists, is an evanescence, a wind full of hints, a shape that coalesces and dissolves in the blowing grasses.

JforJames said...

Can any poem match the feel of the wind through the grasses.