entropy, a gradual decline into disorder.trophic, position in a food chain.
poetrope, a word I just made up, a gradual decline of metaphors into a lower part of the language food chain.
poet rope, how we hang ourselves with our words.trope, a cliche.
trope, overused plot device.
synecdoche, referring to a whole through use of a part.
but.
your glasses are more than glass.
more than your bones are tired.
life itself is more than DNA.
nonsense.
nonsense...
not sense.
it made sense.
enso
S.Ensor, Sensor, senser, he who senses, sends her.
tellio
tell.
tell us.
connect.
con.
where's the con.
convince me.
evince.
tossing words out like confetti/
but with a less celebratory fling./
i forgot to add velcro/
so the words may not stick./
perhaps pushpins were in order/
but yesterday such things were weapons/
in a war against disorder./
dis.order./
i was a pacifist./
but./
a pushpin/ a pinprick/
a drop of blood/
i push the thumbtack in/
because skin is penetrable/
and then i can feel/
something certain./
certainly./
it gets messy/
with no one to ask/
but. still.
Still.
wonderful! i was used to play with words, when I was used to speak my mother tongue (spanish)... now it is a new game to learn, or the same game with new rules... being a beginner again... be +g inner.... let's start the game...
ReplyDeletelove this, Susan! just read and re-read and re-read... layers of meaning and delight / light. :)
ReplyDeleteLove it. For a moment I thought you were Simon Ensor.
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