Poems Have Two Subjects

[abu nuwas]

That is a very useful insight, and explains much. It suggests a reason as to why I sometimes come to feel comfortable with something which, at the time of writing, made me wonder whether I was mad. Another aspect of that must be, I think, those poems which, like books, films and plays, often seem to have one good idea, which was insufficient to sustain a long work, or where one feels that, with poetry, one is reading the makings of two good, but separate poems. A very interesting crystallisation of all kinds of hazy notions!