Tuesday 4 May 2010

A Line (I'd String If I Had Some)

I like to say to writing students:

"Keep the line (which has movement)
from breaking down and becoming
a hole into which we sink
decoratively to rest" (W.C.Williams)

after which I've heard myself say:

If the poem doesn't have action in the lines
it doesn't have much.

[to the tune of the Sibelius 4th on CBC]

as if poems should have.


2 comments:

Brenda Schmidt said...

Nice. I love that pic of you! Makes me want to read some Poe.

Anonymous said...

Winnie the Poe? Very, very dark.