Say to get to innocence, you take the narrow trail
from deep.
You squeeze into the mountains waves.
If you meet savage rock, it is the wrong way.
Turn left.
There then in our hearts honeymoon way I quick way.
That's a character from Moby Dick who
turned this male's head around.
He walks in the room at night.
And it's all tattooed up.
He's a harpoon.
I'll talk about why that name is used here later on in some
of the poems.
There are more of these.
But another exercise I'm also working with
is something called Notes on the Painter's Palette.
I'm trying to develop a writing technique
for working with high school students using paintings
and prints.
And consequently, I've been looking at a lot of art books
and visiting museums.
And I just got fascinated with this whole idea
of fantasizing I'm a painter.
And I think I'll be this is something
I'll be playing around with all year
until I figure out what it is I want from all of this,
but each one of these is this a separate note on the painter's
palette I guess.