DDCPoetry

Original poem reprinted online here:  "Equation for Cresting" by Christopher Bolin Originally read: October 20, 2013 More information about the Poet: Christopher Bolin The reusing images and language in a poem is a tricky thing.  There's the limit where the images and language, repeated, are interesting until a certain point.  Why?  I think this is the question that this poem raises. "This is the world's reenactment of today, / and of this moment,"  Past me focused on "globalized scene"  well, I think not really.  This beginning of the poem to me now is more of the set-up of the language and images -- prepare for more of the same in different ways:           and of continuing on-with its satellite imaging of scattering birds      obscuring our faces--      and this is the world's reenactment of its percentages:      of the constant shifting of satellites      and the c...