This piece is more journal-like in its musings than most of my posts. In fact, parts have been lifted from my hiking journal. I hope this doesn’t render its structure or possible meanings confusing. Also, this post plays around with several rather strenuous threads, like I do commonly when I’m out walking alone. I thought I’d just throw these ideas out there for fun today, but if you have a headache or are looking for something less troublesome to start or end your day on, you might want to skip this one.
Last year(ish), Moab Poets and Writers solicited a bit of writing that would fit compactly into one of the columns of their newsletter. I’m not happy with the piece I wrote for them; it wasn’t quite focused and in places the language fumbled badly.
As underdone as it was, it apparently stirred up some folks. Earlier this year one of the group’s representatives contacted me. MP &W was designing a brochure laying out membership information and other goodies. They wanted to include a few lines from that earlier piece in the brochure. I was delighted to hand it over €¦ more or less. Like I said, the passage does contain some serious flaws.
This is the line MP &W selected for their brochure (again, forgive my clumsiness): Continue reading “Language as wilderness”
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