[New-Poetry] "Word are clothing"

[Halvard Johnson]

I see that GWB revised your subject line, Sr. Jeem.
Watch your step.

Hal

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On Oct 6, 2007, at 9:36 AM, James Cervantes wrote:

> Shop Talk II
>
> Words are clothing,
> though sometimes a poet
> thinks of them as a large flashlight
> with a battery that weighs 5 pounds,
> or the small hide-in-your-hand
> type with a beam you shouldn't
> shine in anyone's eyes.
> The former spread almost
> clear across a page and include
> all that the poet can legally
> or aesthetically get into
> that particular crop, while the
> other has squeezed life
> into a blue-white beam
> that goes out if you release
> your thumb from the switch.
> But back to the clothing:
> there are styles etc.
>
> -- Jim
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