Postcard
Mostly Angels now-a-days
Wednesday, May 15, 2002
"Reasons make us readable"
Something Peter Meinke said at his poetry reading. I think he quoted someone else. I listened from behind a wall. I wanted to just listen. At first I thought I would find a way to enter the room from the back but the partition required a special wrench to operate. I didn't go in the room while Meinke spoke because I wanted to avoid walking in front of a room full of people. I went to the back of the house where i found the room divider and a chair. Sitting at the gap in the wall with a pad and pen, while his amplified speech reached through the separating wall, I missed the fine points of his speaking voice. So the strong poetics carried, even over laughter but the more personal aspect of his conversational tone escaped, swallowed in the accoustic tile. I found myself straining to catch what he said, and since I came to listen, the effort seemed appropriate.
We find ourselves here at this place because of the steps taken which brought us here.
Something Peter Meinke said at his poetry reading. I think he quoted someone else. I listened from behind a wall. I wanted to just listen. At first I thought I would find a way to enter the room from the back but the partition required a special wrench to operate. I didn't go in the room while Meinke spoke because I wanted to avoid walking in front of a room full of people. I went to the back of the house where i found the room divider and a chair. Sitting at the gap in the wall with a pad and pen, while his amplified speech reached through the separating wall, I missed the fine points of his speaking voice. So the strong poetics carried, even over laughter but the more personal aspect of his conversational tone escaped, swallowed in the accoustic tile. I found myself straining to catch what he said, and since I came to listen, the effort seemed appropriate.
We find ourselves here at this place because of the steps taken which brought us here.
