The head of the Brontosaurus erupted in debate spewing money
Sufficient to make some paleontologists’ living for a generation
Disputes between Diplodocus and Apatosaurus founded careers
Like echoing museums and marble floors endowed at great expense
By Foundation money dug up from trusts held of bones in marble mausoleums
Bequeathing Jurassic skeletons cast in plaster (priceless petrified bones coffered)
Camarasaurs and Albertasaurs petrified along with zooplankton and algae’s
Fossilized extract fueling the Canadian economy in that same province holding
The Tyrrell Museum’s complete Tyrannosaurus skeleton with its detached head
Heavy as unintelligible words detached from syntax and evacuated of the themes
Wallace Stevens faulted Robert Frost’s poetry for—poetry made neither a living—
Who spilled words on paper like colors on an abstract painting’s canvass evacuated
Of recognizable content, more art history than paleontology, also palaeontology—
Unrecognized by spellcheck as an extinct word dug up and displayed in a muse
BRONTOSAURUS HEAD
27 Dec 2020 Leave a comment
in Blog Tags: Albertasaurus, Apatosaurus, art, Brontosaurus, Camarasaurus, Diplodocus, Frost, muse, oil, painting, paleontologist, poem, Stevens, syntax, Tyrannosaurus, Tyrrell Museum
POETRY: A LAMENT
25 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
in Blog Tags: clarity, deconstruction, elegy, epic, lyric, ode, poetry, rhyme, rhythm, syntax, truth
A well-turned phrase
Captured sound of sense
Perfect expression of a truth
Wanting to be told
Clarity through word choice: diction
Sentence construction arrangement
Of ideas architectural development
Meaning made through artistry
Word play alliteration assonance
Rhythm rhyme resonance meter beat and feet
Imagery symbol simile metaphor
Epic, Allegory, Lyric, Ode, Elegy
Truth-telling when there was truth
If there ever was truth
Language scripting reality thought
Feeling words substance signification
When there was something to say
To grasp, ponder, moved sonorous sentiment emotion
Sad melancholy somber pleasure ecstasy
Pathos passion feeding and watering cultivation content
Transmission of wisdom, speculation, ideation of mood
Tradition taught sought lived into
What matters to be a human
Telos of poesis making humanity
When capricious arrangement of words
Wasn’t calculated to obfuscate deconstruct plot sequence
Rearranged syntax disjunct
Verbs subjects objects meaningless