In a previous post I referred to poems as “sparks.” I also think of some poems as “looping corkscrews.” The imagery in such poems throws one completely off guard. On purpose. The only defense against such poems is to avert one’s eyes, stop reading, turn away. But if you let the looping corkscrew imagery in, it will twist and turn, this way and that and you will be reward, being touched by something you newver thought or felt before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I think blog member Daniel Burke’s poems Paracolobopsis<\/em><\/strong> and Crominox\u00a0<\/em><\/strong> are good examples of “looping corkscrews.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Paracolobopsis<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n below is amerigo;<\/p>\n\n\n\n he’s snuck through the fold<\/p>\n\n\n\n and up my arms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n six legs scurry<\/p>\n\n\n\n around a palm<\/p>\n\n\n\n of peppered soil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n and up above;<\/p>\n\n\n\n cacophony each way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n a mirror landing<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n shards shed<\/p>\n\n\n\n the paratree<\/p>\n\n\n\n that I am underneath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n pressing against church <\/p>\n\n\n\n brick, my hand went <\/p>\n\n\n\n near a slug.<\/p>\n\n\n\n reaching up its walls;<\/p>\n\n\n\n fog-paved ways tell of time<\/p>\n\n\n\n and stone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I wonder if someone<\/p>\n\n\n\n could sneak me inside?<\/p>\n\n\n\n hidden in a twix packet…<\/p>\n\n\n\n into the square space<\/p>\n\n\n\n with four faces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (weaving in situ; actually kneading)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n where ants are carpenters<\/p>\n\n\n\n and charioteers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (working on a stack of wood for burning)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Osiris <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Neu <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Tetramorium<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n …plunged into<\/p>\n\n\n\n nu-point starting;<\/p>\n\n\n\n never pausing satellite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n birth of the sun is split;<\/p>\n\n\n\n one-man’s seizure spells<\/p>\n\n\n\n team carnage<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n ed is a portal;<\/p>\n\n\n\n snake wrapped around the sun,<\/p>\n\n\n\n ghost of a saber-toothed tiger.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n Crominox\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n fire at the altar<\/p>\n\n\n\n top! supper served <\/p>\n\n\n\n tabula rasa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n the hues of<\/p>\n\n\n\n the body<\/p>\n\n\n\n are refined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n to stain with colour<\/p>\n\n\n\n is to touch<\/p>\n\n\n\n the body. <\/p>\n\n\n\n now made eminent,<\/p>\n\n\n\n hailing from <\/p>\n\n\n\n the bursting hills;<\/p>\n\n\n\n shortest, <\/p>\n\n\n\n trifling,<\/p>\n\n\n\n Min the Blond<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n attends adorned in gold and white,<\/p>\n\n\n\n to the once castrated;<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ox the Besprinkler.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In a previous post I referred to poems as “sparks.” I also think of some poems as “looping corkscrews.” The imagery in such poems throws one completely off guard. On purpose. The only defense against such poems is to avert one’s eyes, stop reading, turn away. But if you let the looping corkscrew imagery in, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coming-soon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions\/1024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}