stand-ins
Metaphors are stand-ins.
:- Doug.
Metaphors are a Chickenman of a different color.
:- Doug.
Archive for May 7th, 2022
As the mist clears
As the mist clears I begin to see metaphors everywhere. Even the word conversation is a metaphor showing to us turning! So first look in other directions to see more of the whole. Make new metaphors; stand in new places. Second, interrogate more deeply the metaphor you have till it yields more of its secrets.
:- Doug.
other thing similar
We might only ever be able to understand in terms of some other thing similar.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 2132–bathtub sonnets
Footprints in the Windsm # 2132
Are there limits to conversation, to a conversation, which can serve to give it focus and fertility? Orson Welles is reported to have said, “The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.” If we ask a poet to make a poem, she will stare at the page for hours, and not produce a jot. If we ask her to produce a sonnet about bathtubs in 24 hours, she is freed.
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