Saturday, October 16, 2010

Maggots



               rising
squirming          festering 
                                     on the decaying surface of our minds

                                                                                  k
                                                                                c
                                                                              o
from a plague a pox a chicken with its head cut off a c      a doodle doomed
by m ass misunderstanding yet definitive delineation.
See another bound bundle of sticks torched.  Another faggot flamed.
                                                                          

6 comments:

  1. I'm having a little trouble with the visual. A gallows?

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  2. There is no structural connection between the first three lines and the fourth. I have a sneaky suspicion that you're not looking at the format I intended anyway.

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  3. I have to confess that this one has left me rather perplexed. I've returned to it several times and keep coming up short.

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  4. What is confusing, Clark? The format or the content?

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  5. Both, in a way. I haven't been able to make heads or tails of the format and I get the sense that there's more to the content than what's on the surface. I've also wondered whether understanding the format would help me better understand the content.

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