DDCPoetry

Poem found here:  "The Wine" by Michael Metivier This poem is a one sentence narrative and has a "koanic" effect on the outside, but really there's a feeling of a "if/then" proposition placed in. So the exposition:      When the townspeople      gave teenaged Buddha      a glass of wine      so delicious he grew      to an unthinkable size Now the key terms in these lines are the adjectives.  "Teenaged" representing a younger Buddha -- maybe not so experienced and still on his way to enlightenment is specified in the poem; however, Buddha's physical change to an "unthinkable" size changes perspective.  "Unthinkable" is an adjective that relies on the readers and observers to create the image, and, in this sense, the poem plants a seed on the difference between what is observed to what actually changes.      and froze into a blue statue      that shielded the town ...