Relative Weights and Measures explained... Bruce Boston talks about his nominated poem from FU #3.
By Bruce Boston
On “Relative Weights and Measures”
“Relative Weights and Measures” was composed
in a rush of writing poems for my collection Surrealities (Dark Regions, 2011).
I started with one file and filled it with ideas for surreal poems, titles
for surreal lines, sudden lines that flashed into my mind, strange
juxtapositions. Surrealism thrives on
juxtapositions, the kind that at first glance appear startling…yet when one
looks closer, can reveal strange associations.
Somewhere along those lines I started to think of all the different ways
we weigh and measure the world, material and subjective, all of them linked by
the common denominator of a value being assigned. From there to the finished poem was a process
of finding the right measurements to include and juxtapose.
The result was a poem that, despite its
brevity, reflects a range of my interests and experiences –
the “feathers and gold” stanza: conflicting
measurements and evaluations,
the “Bugatti” stanza: Einstein’s theory of relativity,
the “nepenthe” stanza: alchemy/fantasy/magic,
the “ten gallon hat” stanza: imagination
unlimited
the “guns and butter” stanza: my worthless degree
in economics,
the “scissor” stanza: an observation of
measurement drawn from experience
– a poem that hopefully resonates.
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"Relative Weights and Measures" appeared in Fantastique Unfettered #3
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