The Curtain

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? "His mind left the fourth wall but never put up the three. In the mornings he would summon his own wall Of a wish on paper, cascading like the drone of a mantra Humming the respite of retroactive assurance. His state forced him to assume into another state, Then his state assume...View all