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The Woodcutter
by Jim BenzEve’s theory of gravity
combines a water color with sundry
forms of poetic justice
retaliation theory in a graded wash
edible garnish, masking fluids
poetic visions of the female pelvis
swept by theories of color
evolution, craft words
and prehistoric young women
with braided hair, linear transformations
imprinted on abstractions
invariant theory, grid structure
bestowed, an artistic interest in nuts
the opportunity
to speak from a sandalwood box
on her own behalf, reads
the image, the Offspring
of Coco-de-Mer
analyzes, influences
reclination of the tongue
in the cheek
on the Chinese dragon chair
bemused
through the window
on a summer day, the Woodcutter
sunlit rhythm unhid
by clothing or gravitational
attraction, a factor of theory
quote me
never dwarf the little man 09/14/2005 Author's Note: published in DISPATCH. Note: this poem has 150 reads, yet no one has ever commented. I'm just curious, got anything to say about it? Seriously, good or bad, feedback is welcome.
Posted on 09/14/2005
Copyright © 2026 Jim Benz
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Charles E Minshall on 03/26/09 at 04:31 AM Congratulations on poem of the day Jim....CharMin |
| Posted by Kristina Woodhill on 03/26/09 at 03:25 PM Congrats on POTD! I don't pretend to understand all of this. I get a progression of images, almost an evolution of woman in art and mind and then I get lost. I'm fascincated by the woodcutter, but do not know how to place him in this (if you know what I mean? :) ). I do love those last two lines as stand-alones. |
| Posted by Laura Doom on 03/26/09 at 11:45 PM Well, I think the woodcutter is a dysfunction of representational divergence, though I may have misread the message in the coco-de-mer. I was expecting a bottle shaped like an hourglass. Bottom line is, we are all grid-lined in collective unconscious. I'll get back to you in a week or so with a more coherent archetypal discrimination ...
Poem of the decade -- everyone's scrambling for the remote :> |
| Posted by Elizabeth Jill on 03/27/09 at 02:34 AM Jim, I am still learning. Because I consider you one of the finest poets I've met, and because many of your poems go into the deep end, -I look for meanings in-between what you write and what is behind your pen. I am always in awe of your delivery. Always. |
| Posted by Elizabeth Jill on 03/27/09 at 02:36 AM [And I love it when a poem of yours breathes on POTD] |
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