NaPM April 21st 2019

[dukealien]

Metacycles


Poetry aware of its own nature posits
nature unaware of its own poetry:
if forms understood that they are forms,
form-ness would erase their understanding,
leaving them no final place to stand.
Since it is, however, existentially
possible to both understand a poem and
reflect upon its nature as a form
or form of forms simultaneously,
it follows poetry, at its highest
and deepest level must surround itself
in veiling mutual incomprehension that
its hypothetical reader’s self resolves
by reading with some form of conquering
and surrendering effort which
disassembles and assembles even as it
resembles and dissembles itself.