From Jack Spicer's Letter to Lorca
by Bill Yarrow
I would like to make poems out of real objects
the lemon
to be a lemon
that the reader
could cut
or squeeze
or taste
a real lemon
like a newspaper in a collage
is a real newspaper
I would like the moon in my poems to be a real moon
suddenly
covered
with a cloud
that has nothing
to do
with the poem
a moon utterly
independent of images
The imagination pictures the real
I would like
to point to the real
disclose it
to make a poem
that has no sound in it
but the pointing of a finger
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Author's Note
Found poem.
This poem appeared in blue five notebook.
Thank you, Sam Rasnake!
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This was fun to read and has interesting, whimsical ideas. Thanks.
Love the very idea of this one.
"You can't do that!"
"Why not?"
"........"
The title alone wins me over. The language of the lines certainly has a Spicer feel.
The penultimate stanza, also, has the great sweep of Spicer's work in it - "to make a poem / that has no sound in it" - That also resonates with my own love/hate feelings about poetry. I realize, of course, that may not have been what you intended, but the writer's intentions stop once the piece is written.
This is a superb ending - a perfect fit. Wish I'd read this piece before it was posted here. My kind of poem. Great work, Bill.
I know who Lorca is, but not Jack Spicer. Well done, making a poem from found words.
Bill, this is terrific!
You must read Spicer, Con.
On Spicer:
http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/january-2009-jack-spicer/
one which could be
suddenly
..covered
with a cloud
that has nothing
to do
with the poem..ah.
I would like my comment to convey real emotion and honest feeling in my expression of enjoyment.