What do you think: would that remark look better if it began with a lowercase letter and ended without punctuation?
sitting here at my kitchen table in the green morning light, listening to the endless downpour, drinking French roast with milk, thinking about the persona-poem session I have to lead this morning, smelling the sopping wet grass outside the open window, trying not to think about how long the grass is and how hard it will be to mow if the storm clouds ever do blow out to sea and the sun ever does shine in the Disconsolate North
Perhaps no caps at all?
sitting here at my kitchen table in the green morning light, listening to the endless downpour, drinking french roast with milk, thinking about the persona-poem session i have to lead this morning, smelling the sopping wet grass outside the open window, trying not to think about how long the grass is and how hard it will be to mow if the storm clouds ever do blow out to sea and the sun ever does shine in the disconsolate north
Dickinson-style lines with wacky caps 'n dashes?
Sitting here at my Kitchen tableIn the green morning Light, listening to the Endless--Downpour, drinking French roast with milk, ThinkingAbout the persona-poem session I have to Lead this Morning--Smelling the sopping wet grass--outside the Open Window,Trying not to think about how Long the grass IsAnd how hard it will be to mow if the Storm-cloudEver do--Blow out to sea and the sun Ever doesShine in the Disconsolate North--
Modernist brevity?
Table: green morning light: a downpourA downpourFrench roast with milkWet grass, open windowStorm cloudsAnd a Disconsolate North
As you can see, I'm having a hard time deleting "disconsolate," though I expect the Modernists would have none of it.
5 comments:
To paraphrase Walt Whitman's Original Edition:
I guess it must be the flag of your Disconsolation, out of sopping green stuff woven.
I should have known that was a Walt word!
I love this! I really like the Dickinson version, love to use those wacky dashes, myself!
All caps...DISCONSOLATE!!!!
I teach; therefore, I am used to no caps and no punctuation.
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