I think this post is very nearly as poetic as the poem itself.
the work of the invisible, like wind or color on prosaic surfaces so that they become both animate and intimate.
This line in particular struck me. The work of the invisible is very Platonic in nature: shadows on a cave wall, the things we can only know through their images. I also like how Barton uses barrier images-- the plastic partition, the bottle's bottom, the bus window-- to locate himself in the world but not of it.
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Date: 2012-03-18 06:11 pm (UTC)the work of the invisible, like wind or color on prosaic surfaces so that they become both animate and intimate.
This line in particular struck me. The work of the invisible is very Platonic in nature: shadows on a cave wall, the things we can only know through their images. I also like how Barton uses barrier images-- the plastic partition, the bottle's bottom, the bus window-- to locate himself in the world but not of it.