Great Regulars: Similar to some Chinese characters,

the shapes of many Hebrew letters resemble forms found in the world . . . For example, beit, the second letter . . . is shaped like a house . . . and its name means 'house.' "

"The House of Musing," a poem of self-instruction, came about from [Emily] Warn's musing about beit. Her language-to-experience process demonstrates a lot about metaphor, too--that metaphor is not so much about making up things as it is about making from them.

The House of Musing

from David Biespiel: The Oregonian: David Biespiel muses on two paths to creating a poem

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