Metallurgy

On the page it looks like this:

Once a critic described
the craft of a poet
as flawed by belief,
as it it ran like crooked
seam through precious ore

In my mind it reads like this:

Once a critic described
a poet's craft
as crooked
running
as if flawed by belief
through precious ore

There is a universalizing that happens and a joining of elements of the simile into the fusion of metaphor. And now as an exercise we go for more

craft
crooked
run
through belief flaw

Departures from Barbara Carey, Undressing the Dark, "flawed by belief".

And so for day 1128
14.01.2010