Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Great Regulars: [James] McCrary's writings are like gesture

drawings of artists, where ink outlines horizons and encloses balloons of space. The first line of this poem sets up the philosophical framework, questions about "out there." Then the words suggest the very basics of thunderclouds gathering: clouds, movement, "electric," "a bit of wet," and then more movement. Then the narrator compares weather to thought, which is "there" and "here" at once or "t(here)".

7/25/91

Thinking about out there

from Denise Low: Ad Astra Poetry Project: James O. McCrary (1941--)

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