i've been thinking a lot lately about the challenge of "finding" the poem in a text or even a word. this quote by painter kazimir malevich in a recent issue of philosopy now magazine got me going on it:

“The human form is not intrinsic in a block of marble. Michelangelo in sculpting David did violence to the marble, he mutilated a piece of beautiful stone….. One must extract from marble those forms which could arise out from its own body, and a carved cube or other form is more valuable than any David. The same in painting, the word, music. “

i've been working for a while now on a poem about brancusi's 'the kiss,' a sculpture i think does an excellent job of "extract[ing]from marble those forms which could arise out from its own body." but the interesting challenge to me is how to do this with words. one tool i've found that seems very fun to play with in this pursuit is erasures, which allows you to create a poem by 'erasing' words from an existing page of text. very cool. my first attempt is here. any further attempts i'll post under user name d_ss. ¶ 10:15 AM 0 comments

okay, i put a link to this blog in my sig line over at blueline, in hopes that it would get me to actually do something with it. i've had this blog for a bit, & it's just been sitting. but i love the name....'spearmint'....so called b/c my husband & i tend to talk in silly partial words (though he's not a poet, go figure) & 'it's an experiment' tends to come out 'it's a spearmint.' so, there you have it. no poetry for now....perhaps later, a paradelle!

but for now, this tidbit: every time i get déjà vu, i think it means i am going to die. how weird is that? ¶ 10:16 AM 1 comments