Tag: form

• Traces

  Three shadows.

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  March 7, 2025

  form, Poetry, shadows, shape, traces

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• Confessions of a Former New Formalist

  On oranges.

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  December 6, 2024

  concrete poetry, content, form, New Formalism, oranges, poetics, Poetry, shape

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• Midtown: Three Spare Poems

  City scenes and a concept (of sorts).

  

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  June 28, 2024

  Bryant Park, form, Hudson Yards, manhattan, New York, Poetry, shape, size, spare poems, urban landscape

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• Justification

  On the form that a poem comes to inhabit. For M. P.

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  June 14, 2024

  dream, egrets, form, justification, motion, Poetry, shape, watercolor

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• A Thunderstorm Rolls through Central Jersey at Eight P.M.

  and somehow I'd forgotten what a good storm brings—
  
  not just the applauding rain and waterfall-whistling 
  
  of falling water-wind, but the eerie glow of 
  
  the interior of the house. Not an absence 

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  May 30, 2024

  darkness, form, light, New Jersey, Poetry, rain, shadow, thunderstorm, weather

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• Poems on Poems about Poems

  I.
  I dislike prose 
        for the truths it tells;
  I dislike poetry 
        for the truths it tells not.
  
  II.
  Sprawling its limbs in the shade of the tree, 
              the poem eyes the landscape, 
              wary of any threat to its pride.

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  May 23, 2024

  form, free verse, language, poems, Poetry, poets, Prose, verse, writing

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• Seated Men

  At the Museu Picasso

  

  One watches the world for the first time.
  Another unfolds what
                  the first sees,

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  May 19, 2024

  abstract expressionism, art, Cubism, displacement, form, Painting, Picasso, Poetry

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