10-08-2011, 09:14 AM
Just when I was beginning to think that, despite the best efforts of all, the crits were getting too 'nicey nicey'--- along comes Jack (Heslopian) with v honest and down-to-earth comments, followed by Todd, in much the same vein, but all positive.
I shall not repeat the exercise. However, I did swing back and forth: cut it down, sharpen it up! No, let it be, let it ramble. I must extract the last drop of meaning! No, not really. Then I realised, it sent me back years, not to poetry, but letters, the private letters of other people: 'Pam, meet you at 4pm for tram, as per usual' Understood. 'Worried about Jen and mayhem'. Half-undestood, and that was it -- reading something half-intelligible to anyone, wholly intelligible to perhaps two people, or even one. Made me think and work a little, which is unusual......
I shall not repeat the exercise. However, I did swing back and forth: cut it down, sharpen it up! No, let it be, let it ramble. I must extract the last drop of meaning! No, not really. Then I realised, it sent me back years, not to poetry, but letters, the private letters of other people: 'Pam, meet you at 4pm for tram, as per usual' Understood. 'Worried about Jen and mayhem'. Half-undestood, and that was it -- reading something half-intelligible to anyone, wholly intelligible to perhaps two people, or even one. Made me think and work a little, which is unusual......