April 7: I think I understand my problem with "old poem," now. I need my foreground layer to say some third thing, not illustrate a splash. Different colors, maybe. At this point, too, I'm considering adding splinterings of broken text--specifically, "sun's voice, its range suddenly enlarged," or something, and many overlappings of "autumn shoremurmurings."
Other news: I now split poetry into linguexpressive poetry and plurexpressive poetry. Yes, I'm ready to shoot myself for continually renaming my main kinds of poetry. But I have my reasons for doing so.
Also: I now think of any poem as consisting of decks, one for each kind of thing it does. One for denoting, for example. One for melodation. One for what, if anything, it does visually (besides verbally mean). Etc.
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