DDCPoetry

Poem Found Here:   "The Long Hand Wishes It Was Used" by Jackie Clark "Sometimes I wish I didn't think in words".  For me, this is a powerful opening line that holds potential emotional weight: wishing for something so mundane as words, but so complex as thought.  But instead of words, what?  The following three lines add a cumulative effect, not only how to think, but also the technique of repeating "and" to put a simple addition:      and that instead for each thought I thought I drew upon an image,      and that I was able to organize each image in a linear way that would be like sort of like reading      and that instead of trying to describe the edges around something      I could just think of the color around the edges of the image to be darker, So the cumulative effect focuses on the concept of lines -- the border of the image.  To "organize each image in a linear way that would be like sort of ...