Been working crazy hard on Appearances.  Feel like it's starting to approach where it needs to be.

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Listening to Junior Kimbrough's great "Most Things Haven't Worked Out."  I'm obsessed with it right now.

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The poetics of a few things versus the poetics of a lot of things.  There's no right or wrong here.  There's preference, personal aesthetics. For me, even in a long poem, it's an aesthetic of less not more. And that's what I love about the blues.  Kimbrough's really eloquent that way.  The intervals, the space between and around the notes are what makes things happen.  It's as true in poetry as it is in music.

As Cid Corman once insisted to me: leave space on the page for the words to breathe.

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Words aren't just content.  They can be plenty discontent.

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