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July 14: Busy, tiring day. So here's my divisor again, followed by a few brief comments on it. |
I showed this to a member of our now defunct local writers' group (he and I are the only remeaining members). He is a prose writer without great knowledge of poetry, and very little knowledge of visual poetry, although I've exposed him to a fair amount of it over the two or three years I've known him. He found the "W" but not the rest of the abbreviated word in the image. Prior to that he made me happy by saying that the image made him think of a mountain in snow. I want it to represent winter.
It took me a lot of thought before I added the lettering ("WNTR"). After adding it, I almost withdrew it on the grounds that it was nothing but an embedded title, and because the image should not need a label. It does not make the graphic a visual poem, but is itself a (very minor) visual poem--due to its suggesting bare, awkward winter branches. It is a better infraverbal poem, although only infraverbally onomatopoietic, due to its suggestion of the way winter is shrivelled into itself, and bleakly unsayable (the way a word without vowels is).
Nothing much, but once in the context of the mathemaku I have planned, it will be much more. And the embedded title will be neceesary for it to do all I want it to metaphorically.
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