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Daily Notes on Poetry
1 November 2004. On 12 August, I posted the following:
brooks chattering of things water can't know,
woods murmurring into subjects deeper
than anything trees can understand,
poems solitarily discovering whole worlds
forever beyond the ken of words.
Fragment, 7 August 2004, Norwalk CT
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I now find "whole worlds" embarrassingly cliched, so have rewritten the fragment:
brooks chattering of things water can't know,
woods murmurring into subjects deeper
than anything trees can understand,
poems solitarily discovering
forevers beyond the ken of words.
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Not that I believe the thing, but it does capture feelings I have, and had when first writing it. Hold on. I do believe it. At least as a half-truth. It was inspired, I neglected to mention in my 12 August entry, by something in Andrew Zawacki's Anabranch. Dunno whether I'll take it any further. . . .
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