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These Poems ain't Pictures
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These Poems ain't Pictures

Sounds in the Wind
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An artist’s statement of a sort defending the practice of poems without painting.

these poems may seem light
they may seem breezy in the wind
as if the words were living 
running their own modes to send

i’ll tell you what it is,
give a look behind the veil
share the sense of creation
explain what’s wagging this tail

it’s sound here that guides us
the rolling, laughing waves
of vocal resonance pulsing
across intermediate space

perhaps you want for image
a deeply inscribed view
etched in hardened semantic
a visual condensing dew

these are not the ways 
that come naturally here to pen
for inscriving seen certainties
collect each scene of when

is not the goal for this voice
not here to paint a picture
nor preserve a momentary
nor make a mindful fixture

let the sounds wash over
let them soothe your soul
let them warm your ear lobes
let them empty the hole

for nothing here is held
nothing to wrap the fingers
nothing to show mind’s eye
no scents to very long linger

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