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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2009-06-16 12:18 am

You confused evasion and artistic tact

I have spent three weeks now on a poem that will neither resolve nor get out of my head. I cannot make it work at all. I don't know why it isn't working. I want to put my head through plate glass.

[identity profile] cucumberseed.livejournal.com 2009-06-16 05:13 am (UTC)(link)
I know the feeling well; though, please, no plate glass. Your head has been the birthplace of many beautiful things, I mean, beyond its utility to you, which I cannot stress enough, given that you may not be seeing said utility quite right in current circumstances (Lord knows, I tend to forget the utility of mine when such things happen, but then I think "where would I keep my hat?" Sadly the answer to that is often "behind the couch.")

http://www.sendspace.com/file/zad0xm

(I fear I may have gotten a bit off track.)

I won't vouch for the utility of this intuition, but it tells me that you should try the poem backwards, or, failing that, widdershins. Whichever way works or does not, have some good mojo.