Friday, July 20, 2007
Mellifluous Phrases
I have quite a collection of odd little phrases that sound really good to my ears. They often sit in a notebook until I just happen to find they fit in a poem I'm already writing. "Penthouse built entirely of antlers" in the draft below is an example of one--I thought of it while I was falling asleep, I believe, and found it so amusing that I had to write it down and save it until it became pertinent for this poem. Another one I kept for a long time is "popping patellar tendons," whose sonics I love and which I tried in an early draft of a different poem before it ended up in this one, slightly modified.
Some others, a couple of which have found poem homes and a couple of which haven't and may never:
Some others, a couple of which have found poem homes and a couple of which haven't and may never:
- I peel apples slowly, wholly, / as if their pelts will fetch me / forty bucks at Fort Bridger (yes, I came up with that whole thing, nearly verbatim, while half asleep)
- we flick lit cigarettes on dynamite
- a dragon rang the doorbell
- my pet coyote smokes peyote
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The silent eyelid of violet twilight...
(This eventually morphed into the the phrase "rattles the ladder of violet twilight" in a poem I wrote sometime after I first started playing with the words.)
...pokes its Pinocchio nose into the open window of the street...
(That one is from a line about an army tank.)
Have you ever seen a butterfly flutter by?
(The answer would be, yes...)
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(This eventually morphed into the the phrase "rattles the ladder of violet twilight" in a poem I wrote sometime after I first started playing with the words.)
...pokes its Pinocchio nose into the open window of the street...
(That one is from a line about an army tank.)
Have you ever seen a butterfly flutter by?
(The answer would be, yes...)
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