the difference between my writing
and an old dried out (I’m walking over to make sure)
and an old dried out (I’m walking over to make sure)
juniper tree—claw-like leaf fronds,
dusty blue berries—
I mean, my writing’s lines and points,
dusty blue berries—
I mean, my writing’s lines and points,
its syntactic structure, likened to a tree?
Remembering Robert Graves’s tree-letter system
(but I can’t find The White Goddess anywhere);
Remembering Robert Graves’s tree-letter system
(but I can’t find The White Goddess anywhere);
what I DO find (the first hit when I google
“Robert Graves juniper”):
Literagram #19: Robert Graves’s Symptoms of Love - Juniper Books:
“Robert Graves juniper”):
Literagram #19: Robert Graves’s Symptoms of Love - Juniper Books:
Love is universal migraine
A bright stain on the vision
Blotting out reason.
A bright stain on the vision
Blotting out reason.
So what’s the difference?
If you subtract my writing from a juniper tree,
the juniper tree remains.
If you subtract my writing from a juniper tree,
the juniper tree remains.
