My Way_ Speeches and Poems - Charles Bernstein

~ lest of ~oetr~
What do you mean by rashes of ash? Is industry
systematic work, assiduous activity, or ownership
of factories? Is ripple agitate lightly? Are
we tossed in tune when we write poems? And
what or who emboss with gloss insignias of air?
Is the Fabric about which you write in the epigraph
of your poem an edifice, a symbol of heaven?
Does freight refer to cargo or lading carried
for pay by water, land or air? Or does it mean
payment for such transportation? Or a freight
train? When you say a commoded journey,
do you mean a comfortable journey or a good train
with well-equipped commodities? But, then, why
do you drop the 'a' before slumberous friend? And
when you write, in "Why I Am Not a Christian"
You always throw it down / But you never
pick it up-what is it??
In "The Harbor of Illusion", does vein
refer to a person's vein under his skin or
is it a metaphor for a river? Does lot
mean one's fate or a piece of land?
And does camphor refer to camphor trees?
Moreover, who or what is nearing. Who or
what has fell? Or does fell refer to the
skin or hide of an animal? And who or what has
stalled? Then, is the thoroughfare of
noons atoll an equivalent of the template?
In "Fear of Flipping" does flipping mean
crazy?