Follow Tim Miller on three distinctive jaunts at Isacoustic!
O at the Edges
Musings on poetry, language, perception, numbers, food, and anything else that slips through the cracks.
Follow Tim Miller on three distinctive jaunts at Isacoustic!
O at the Edges 
St Magnus wins it for me. Tim manages to really hold the attention in a long poem, which is a feat in itself & the ending is a beauty. This line too
“remember death while you live so the living
might remember you when you are dead.”
i am easily wooed by chiasmus.
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I admire Tim’s long poem ability. I can’t manage to sustain anything longer than maybe 50 lines.
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i have to tame myself, i can easily get carried away. i have a bull whip & a tazer to keep me obedient to sensible lengths.
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I’m simply limited. 🙂
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Going off on a tangent can be limiting too, unless you nail it & sometimes you are so hyped on the flow that you forget to reign yourself in, which takes the casting of a good critical eye on yourself & a whole lot of editorial scouring, with an a firm scouring brush.
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I’ve learned to rein myself in fairly well, but there are still those times…
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i think you’ve done a sterling job, i have told you before, your use of breath & space is very accomplished. With each successive poem, each draft, we inch closer to a better sense of the margins & interior of a poem in the context of its subject & the effect we hope to transfer to readers.
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My temperament is better suited for short pieces, and I no longer feel the urge or need to torture myself with attempting longer forms.
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I tend to think out longer forms which allow me to carve up the concept into managable singlets. Apart from the Yoon Yong poen which is uninterrupted & coming along nicely.
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Robert, these are superb. I don’t know where to begin. Love the skin that remembers, the north broadcasting spores to inhale, and the saw that does not cut! Wonderful!!
Dwight
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You should visit Tim’s blog for more!
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