02-16-2022, 05:05 AM
Dogs show up in my poems to represent shameless, indiscriminate love.
Dead dogs usually represent a failed crossing of the road. A failed seeking.
I wanted emblems and signs and things to represent empty significations. And the short lines to signify unevenness and gnarls, though the stanzas are similarly shaped.
I wanted to keep making reference to ordinary and common features of the tree to have the tree be as simple as possible. Almost obviously simple and generic. And maybe not even a tree.
The busy squirrels see no meaning in my poems. The hunting dogs see nothing worth even pissing on.
The plainness of it even scares away the birds. Even the scavengers. So simple, yet strange.
The tree has heart but no brain. It's clinging to its origins, that's all it has. It knows nothing else.
Hard, simple and unmoving. The wind's colliding with it doesn't make a sound. Yet it feels and stands stable and strong. It has no choice. There's nothing else to hold on to.
Dead dogs usually represent a failed crossing of the road. A failed seeking.
I wanted emblems and signs and things to represent empty significations. And the short lines to signify unevenness and gnarls, though the stanzas are similarly shaped.
I wanted to keep making reference to ordinary and common features of the tree to have the tree be as simple as possible. Almost obviously simple and generic. And maybe not even a tree.
The busy squirrels see no meaning in my poems. The hunting dogs see nothing worth even pissing on.
The plainness of it even scares away the birds. Even the scavengers. So simple, yet strange.
The tree has heart but no brain. It's clinging to its origins, that's all it has. It knows nothing else.
Hard, simple and unmoving. The wind's colliding with it doesn't make a sound. Yet it feels and stands stable and strong. It has no choice. There's nothing else to hold on to.