Subdue Yourself

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? "Why do you subdue yourself in indigos? Why do you dim yourself in perfectly cut linen? Don’t you see that I can weave as well as any needleworker, And that I am overmastered by a setting sun of these colors. Porcelain, you’d sit— How still; But your curves would pirouette upw...View all