All This Talk

all this talk waxing poetic waning objectivist imagistic surrealist beatific
academic formulaic projectivist new critic lyrical confessional postwar feminist
new formal identity language poetry spoken all this talk waxing poetic waning
coffeehouse jazz café blues slam spoken open mic open form open bar open book open mind
open doors open bottle begin to pour extend emerge project spill your contents on form formulate your contentious words formulate a con con-form formally content contentedly informed all this talk waxing waning poetic no ideas but in things so much depends objective correlative vortex form expression of content form a revelation of content form an extension of content poem a convergency of forms content and form dynamic interaction form not a fixture an activity inward poetry deepening life lovely uncluttered directness of perception every idea fashion its own form for itself do not content yourself with self-complacent experiments open forms are in some concerns the strictest problems of contact problems of language and style problems of energy and survival pursue the unattainable principle of uncertainty actuality versus contingency fractal forms manageable chaos groping for a continuous present inevitable beginning of beginning again and again and again silence is suggestive all earthly existence is partial thoroughness reprimands imagination a great deal that has been begun and after that what changes what changes after that after that what changes and what changes after that and after that and what changes and after that and what changes after that all this talk waxing poetic waning waxing poetic waning waxing poetic waning waxing poetic all this talk

written by Diana Tigerlily, 2004