{"id":1759,"date":"2020-09-27T09:32:49","date_gmt":"2020-09-27T16:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1759"},"modified":"2020-09-29T00:52:42","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T07:52:42","slug":"digging-into-a-very-graphic-love-poem-to-get-a-handle-on-active-imagic-metaphorically-rich-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1759\/digging-into-a-very-graphic-love-poem-to-get-a-handle-on-active-imagic-metaphorically-rich-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Digging into a very graphic love poem to get a handle on active, imagic, metaphorically-rich writing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cCould it be me? Could it be me, baby? Could you be in there, too?\u201d<\/p><\/div>[This is me in August of 2007, and I am reposting rather than revising it because I am changed since then. I’m writing about storgic love here before I even knew its name, and rhapsodizing verbs before I had gotten around to cataloging them \u2013 a task I hope to return to, someday. And if you’ve been following my strange relationship with Thalia, there is a flagrant kiss-blowing incident right here. Even so, I have nothing to add to this argument. If anything, events are avenging me with heart-stopping acceleration \u2013 much, much more is the pity. And yet: There is hope: For if you can read this, then you yourself are the savior of the truly human<\/u> life. \u2013GSS]<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nIt’s late and the kids are in bed — do make sure the kids are in bed — and I feel like digging a little deeper into the idea of writing. This is a love poem I wrote ten years ago:<\/p>\n

let’s make love like velcro baby
\nit’s the best thing we can do
\nyou stick to me like strapping tape
\ni’ll stick to you like glue<\/p>\n

i’ll cast my anchor in your harbor baby
\nthrust my shovel in your earth
\ncling by claws to your cavern walls
\ntake me test my worth
\n\u00a0
\n        love’s just a hint baby
\n        love’s just a scent
\n        just a sniggling squiggling clue
\n        could it be me
\n        could it be me baby
\n        could you be in there too
\n\u00a0
\nlet’s make love like velcro baby
\nlet’s do it ’til we die
\ngrab me grasp me clutch me clasp me
\nhook me with your eyes<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is fun, first, simply because it’s such a goofy idea. The word play itself is fun, but, even before that, it’s fun because it’s such a clumsy, clinical premise for a love poem, the polar opposite of the sunsets and silences and solitudes of the sonnets: Let’s make love like velcro<\/i>, baby.<\/p>\n

The poem is built from very simple stuff. English words, not stuffy Latinate polysyllables. Active verbs, along with nouns and adjectives rich in imagic particularity. This is what Conrad was talking about<\/a>, writing to Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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