Posted by Kathleen Wilson on 11/12/07 at 04:12 AM This poem begins in time, in fact "Every time" --thus the emphasis--this is not a an
occasional feeling for this poet, but he's a frequent flyer. That is as long as he does roll the window down often. Which I get the impression he does. So then there's action. He extends his hand. And there's imaginatio. Then there's big space in the poem... what happens there?! Space for not only a "jet plane" but a "big" jet plane... this is a "big" feeling. He feels the "wind" not on his hand out of where??? Well one imagines a car. Why? Because we've all done that, put our hand out and feel the wind in that situation...but it's not necessarily a car... could be just the house, could be a smaller plane... well it does not matter! ...what matters is... that we are free to "imagine". So back to the "wind" It's a feeling of being a "pilot" of a plane (one's plane of life perhaps even?) the wind pulling on the plane's wings, not on his hand... "and the clock unwind" I love that line... it's timelessness that goes beyond the "plane". Yes. "Dip n' Dive" is an interesting title. The slight motion of the hand into the wind (like dipping consciously) resulting a "dive" deeper into the unwound unconsious.
It almost sounds like 'deepened dive" and that makes sense too... or am I going of the deep end?? What a mighty flight of imagination... well that's what it is about!! |