The Right Column


Here is a fragment-poem:
    If I were
      canoeing in an
      ice flow say
   on some giant lake
      at the fringe
    of a break through, 
      a place of warmer water
     that flows back
    to civilization
     beside some giant lake-wall
     built along the shore 
      where they've made places
   for canoes to pull up . . .


fragment poems
try to evoke a mood
without a full
statement.
They do not make complete 
sentences.  They mimic
a sentance fragment
of a distracted mind.
Or, they can represent
the first part of a statement
when the second part is left out,
like you hear part of what someone
is saying (and thus the 
ellipsis at the end)

 that poem is
 pulled from the raw 
(and unedited)
poem page 2
and slightly modified.

23 Jan
2009
-BP