Footsteps

With "remnants", I wanted to play with the psycho-epistemological process involved in experiencing the written word. In literary arts, the process goes from perception, to the conceptual grasp, to appraisal, and then to emotion. Music, on the other hand, operates as if in reverse; from perception directly to emotion, and only then to appraisal and conceptual grasp. Could this sequence be replicated in poetry? "I think I see my footsteps as I look ahead. Hallucination? I don’t know. I can’t tell much anymore. It all seems a bit numb and smells like the burning filter of a cigarette telling you to stop. Just stop. Do anything else. Anything else is the right thing to do. A droplet of sweat fa...View all