Like pin sculpture impressions the legs spread— support under the blankets;
anchor a flat backed giant whose contours are a part of the woolen plaid field.
The red, white, black and blue crossed lines I feel no need to move
hold steady as farms and roads straight as arrows curved to hills.
Gulliver, I could sleep nearly as well as you with few precautions
settled like a rock, though more like a whale—
if only the buried hands connected earthquakes we unleash—
the pins of blankets not our own would fall.
Started while residing on Rosina Street in Santa Fe NM; 1994, age 26 or 27.
At the time of first writing this poem there were a lot of these art toys that had a framed field of silver colored rods/pins with rounded ends that you could push things up against to create an impression/ sculpture/ art. I don’t think I had seen them before
When posted why is the word “field.” cut short when the line it’s in is unindented? Why can’t that line go at least as far to the right as the title? Why isn’t there a ghost line in editing mode (and regular writing mode) to show where the cut off point is? When I go along with this excessively early cut off point and continue the line one level down with an indentation; why is it that, though the program lets me write it out that way in editing, it has the continuation start plumb with the line’s beginning once posted? That indicates to the reader who knows the conventions of writing verse that that continuation of a line is not a continuation of a line but a line in itself. But that’s not the case!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why does the verse mode that I wrote it in have these restrictions that are so unfriendly to standard verse writing conventions and being fanciful?!
Writings By Erick Heins 