opposite of towers

Poems are built the opposite way of towers, which are built up from a foundation. Line by stanza the poem is built in the thin air of the imagination while dropping down, always trying to feel for a bottom, find a solid base.

design + build

Another way to think of poetic form: Not as a template passed down through time, but something designed and built by the language of a particular poem.

bird nest

She built her poem as a bird builds its nest, with strands of this & that found at large in the world.

cornerstone word

Upon this word I will build my poem. (after Matthew 16:13)