Daily Notes on Poetry & Related Matters
Daily Notes on Poetry & Related Matters
30 November 2006: A visual poem by Ilse Garnier about rhythms and silence inspired me to this: "silence ecnelis." Now that I've typed it for the first time, I realize that it must be unoriginal. Not that I thought of it as anything major, or even more that a small small start toward something. In Ilse's piece, which is from the Ohio State University collection, several instances of "silence" spell a curve that first makes a curve opening to the right, then to the left. I'll post it eventually. Anyway, my only thought was that having the instances of "silence" in the curve facing left backwards would be interesting. I immediately thought they should be reversed, too (the way a b is the reverse of a d)--as I would have my little beginning of a poem.
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