Tree-Man

[rowens]

I rely on synchronicities and unexpected personal associations (not mine). I like to play roughness and inanity against my better efforts. All of my poems are based on other poems, especially my own. If it wasn't against site rules, I'd put plagiarized sections of other poems in my poems for the jarring effect. I often do that in my notebooks. Sometimes I write poems simply to make stronger of my poems have something to have an allusion too. Sometimes I place dry phrases, or unconnected lines to introduce a flavor of desperation or self-mockery. I like to turn on certain logics, as in dreams, ones I wake from and feel a new clarity on something based in unspoken sensations and connections. I want to risk and perpetuate failure in order to incite new kinds of successes. I want to force myself into an unclearness where I have to strain to make sense of things, and from that strain, break things in me, cracks from which new things ooze and creep out. If not explode. Or implode.
I told you that story to tell you this:
In this poem, I want the subject destroyed in its making. A desperate doomability amongst a questionable stability. The very essence of clinging. As though you were falling to your death, and the only thing to grab hold to is the vise that's crushing you.
My poems don't end at their boundaries. They spread like fungi.
Tree-Man