Friday, May 22, 2009

Stop Gap Forwarded

ballooned net the to jitters bore by a as week-old darker
bore by a as week-old darker and spur balance derailing
and spur balance derailing ballooned net the to jitters

began denial the to skepticism rebuff from a as thin next
rebuff from a as thin next or evening closure responding
or evening closure responding began denial the to skepticism

disappear setback the to landmark cut to a as stark coherent
cut to a as stark coherent but moments bay warming
but moments bay warming disappear setback the to landmark

-- Glenn R. Frantz

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Well, I wanted to come up with some sort of regular repetition scheme. I had the notion of writing a set of "half-lines" and then assembling them in such a way that each half-line gets used twice: once as the first half of a line, once as the second half. Also, there should be groups of half-lines that share the same word pattern, such as "ballooned net the to jitters", and "began denial the to skepticism".

Following my instinct to overcomplicate things, I first devised an elaborate arrangement that scattered the repetitions in an irregular way across all nine lines. A quick test revealed that the patterns were really not very perceptible! So I backed off to this simple scheme for each stanza:

AB
BC
CA

I just repeated this for each stanza, with different words filled into each of the A/B/C patterns. And the result is confusing enough! But it has a nice looping quality to it. Hmm, maybe a more complex pattern would work better if I used normal-syntax phrases for the parts...

Thanks for reading!

-- Glenn