Article Just Published

My article, "Can You Hear the Sight of Water?" has just been published on-line by the Loft. Go to the link for the Loft and click it. When the Loft website comes up, click on the View From the Loft. My article will come up - until an another article is published. In that case, scroll down to my article or put the title in the Search box. Or go to www.loft.org/view/

The piece grew out of ways that Clem and I have experimented with weaving the senses together. As poets, we would suggest that in many ways, poetry is foundational for all writing. Poetry arises out of nonverbal images in our mind - and the poet's work is to find the means to convey those images to other people. Although there is a place for poetry that is purely descriptive of something in our external world, much poetry is many-layered and relies on metaphor. And metaphor is what we use when we have difficulty finding words to express something within that wants to push itself out and onto paper.

An example: have you ever gone outside and smelled summer? Now really - try explaining to someone how summer, a season of the year, smells to you. Is it the smell of rain or the smell of sunshine. Sunshine? Now tell me, how does sunshine smell? Do you move into memories of past summers' good times, such as pictures in your mind, the sound of waves on a beach, the ice cream truck's bell, a worn softball in your hands . . .

Elizabeth