Writing poems feels like abstracting the train of thought itself
Writing poems feels like abstracting the train of thought itself, and it feels a little weird, like I’m leaving gaps for the reader to fill in within the context of whatever “structure” or “internal logic” I’m trying to create.
I feel like the difference between trying to write prose and writing poems is that writing prose feels like creating chains of causality between things, whereas writing poems sometimes feels like constructing a world where two (or more) things are related, and then placing both things in that world.
I still don’t feel like my poems feel like they’re written by a poet – it feels like there are some shared conventions happening in that world that I don’t really understand yet.
Anyway, I spend way too much time having these sorts of pretentious art thoughts, oops.