There is no poem that cannot take
the poet's mind as its subject. Perhaps
when a digression takes the form of
a quotation, as in "to be" or "not to
be", the poet becomes the director
and other writers act out a scene.
However, even these borrowings,
as with the borrowings of words
which already exist, and even the
creation of words that do not with
letters and sounds that do, the poet
wields sounds by wielding the mind.
The ultimate cause of the poem, the
mind, is thus the subject, the object,
and the verbal orientation of any
given poem. The reader, though,
would have an argument to be
taken as in mind in any taken
poem. If poems are creatures of
poet minds, they are tiny shards
of shattered mind glass, refracting
bits of light and photosynthesis from
the history and future of the mind in
question. If every mind is always in
question, is every mind a poet mind?
Such extensions of logic beyond the
logic available are typical of poet
minds. The poet does not mind
if every mind seems like the poet's.
The poet smells rain on dust
and sighs and writes another
poem about petrichor about
the smell of mind on dust.
Roman Ryan 