What Do Women Want?
What Do Women Want?
“20 GESTATIONS Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
People always ask where poems come from—and the truth is that not even the poet knows. Especially not the poet.
A line comes into your head. Or an image. If you are waiting in attentiveness for a poem to knock on your skull, you catch the line and write it down. Or maybe you catch only a fragment of the line and then allow it to suggest another and another and another. Sometimes the line or fragment waits for years in a notebook... for you to pick it up again. Sometimes it is lost. But as with a dream fragment, it is important to catch whatever you can. By its toes if necessary. The rest of the body may follow.
“The Buddha in the Womb” started like that. “Bobbing in the waters of the womb” came into my head. And then the poem followed. Or I followed the poem. It is hard to tell whether the poet follows the poem or the poem descends like Mary Poppins on a kite string.
What was the occasion for the poem? A headstand.MoreLess
People always ask where poems come from—and the truth is that not even the poet knows. Especially not the poet.
A line comes into your head. Or an image. If you are waiting in attentiveness for a poem to knock on your skull, you catch the line and write it down. Or maybe you catch only a fragment of the line and then allow it to suggest another and another and another. Sometimes the line or fragment waits for years in a notebook... for you to pick it up again. Sometimes it is lost. But as with a dream fragment, it is important to catch whatever you can. By its toes if necessary. The rest of the body may follow.
“The Buddha in the Womb” started like that. “Bobbing in the waters of the womb” came into my head. And then the poem followed. Or I followed the poem. It is hard to tell whether the poet follows the poem or the poem descends like Mary Poppins on a kite string.
What was the occasion for the poem? A headstand.MoreLess
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