I am dieting on elemental words.
Rudimentary prose.
Solid: “the axis”
Liquid: “penetrated”
Air: “bluish-toned rows”
Solid: the/a, a concept or thing with clear empirical verifiability OR inclination towards willful suspension of disbelief via geometric, analytic, and/or commonsensical application; e.g. “a ball, some star, arched lemon, the million little deaths, the millions I’ll never want to again.”
Liquid: basically what you’d think “verbose” meant if you didn’t already know it misleadingly means “wordy.” Verb-y. Pair with slant-rhymed adverbs to generate movement. Morally troublesome words can be limited in embellishment. Animation of non-verbs benefits from the hinting hyphen. e.g. “teeming, frothed, shimmer brimming, viscous slather, rape, violate, cross-bowed, center-folded.”
Air: deconstructive sector of the elemental triad; harnesses language and imagination with matched vigor. The meaning itself is contained entirely within the text. In e.g. “bluish-toned rows,” “rows” offers the physical presence thus far lacking in the stanza and also rhymes with “prose;” “bluish-toned” smoothes the always-abrupt end of the stanza by stitching a hyphen between a universal suffix on the left and a universal prefix on the right; one sees how light, how figure-eighted and muscled and slight -
Exercise. Fill these in. Use your pen.
Solid: ________
Liquid: _______
Air: __________
Next Lesson: “Structuring The Bricks”
Homework: think of Words That Sound Like "Brick" -or- think of Words That Sort Of Sound Like "Brick" But Also Operate Within Similar Systematic Environments.
Friday, July 24, 2009
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3 footnotes:
Exercise. Fill these in. Use your pen.
Solid: ________
Liquid: _______
Air: __________
Fill these in. Use your pen.
Cool meter. Fill these in (1,2,3). Use your pen. (1,2,3). List-like, same syllables in triples. Mirrored in the triad: solid, liquid, air. Structure paired (and shown) with poetry best in this part, I think.
Looking forward Structuring The Bricks, Kel.
Thank you again for the book and your painting, and a birthday to eclipse the rest.
I admire and respect you. Nashville will treat you well.
I promise letters and a visit.
Love, Amy
The best kinds of friends are the ones who share art supplies and play 1997 Modest Mouse.
take some pics of those murals you're painting for campus. I wanna see.
like amy i found the exercise quite poetic.
she missed one though. Its a triumverant, a sequence of three syllable commands.
Exercise (3sybs) fill these in (3sybs) use your pen (3sybs): all three of are in Dactyl meter. you walk a fine line between accident and intuation.
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