from BARDO

The stars are in our belly; the Milky Way our umbilicus.

Is it a consolation that the stuff of which we’re made

is star-stuff too?


– That wherever you go you can never fully disappear –

dispersal only: carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen.


Tree, rain, coal, glow-worm, horse, gnat, rock.


Roselle Angwin

Friday 16 August 2013

two things that are important in a poem...

 
...the words



and the silence between them.



*





Every word you put into a poem counts



space is a crucial component



space is not just ‘less is more’



it’s about



pauses



what you don’t say



what breathes behind the poem



and remembering that these words



invite



unfold from



and unfurl into



space



and silence




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