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Wyrd worker poem

The Triptych, poetry's newest

Updated: Dec 13, 2019


The second poetic form, the Triptych, that I have designed, pays homage to the ancient Homeric epigram plus two lines, the Greek Haiku and Rothko.

It is a conversion of the classically contemporary and literary arts as I imagine it poetically, and how Rothko might have re-imagined it, as I outline in Prometheus Rebound and Other Mythology when the form was first presented. The triptych...is a poetic hybrid premised upon the visual and literary arts. Its form distills thought that recounts impressions and incidents as rhythmic, mural imagery in bits of three brushed onto paper. Like painting or architecture, it integrates text-tile and space as it delineates the nuance of original shape redrawing boundary while solidifying synergy premised on archetype models.

Examples include: LULL, a commission for A Poet's Agora (2016), After the last before the first and Wyrd worker (presented here).

As experimented in my second collection, the triptych form is further explored freely in my third collection, Therapy with Antigone and the Trilogy Verses, encompassing, 1/3 of the collection.


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