This is an excerpt from my poem, Wing

We find you, dear Wing,
in the half-dark
on the way back from the piglets…

I played around a lot with the PIGLETS … taking this line in and out of the poem. But I realised that it was integral to the whole energy and emotion of the piece. It was the SOUND of the piglets snufflilng and snorting, and this sense of life and innocence they evoked I was chasing in the poem. I realised their inclusion was essential, without them I couldn’t HEAR that noise –  and it was this Click through to see the video. Including this hyperlink and writing the poem up here helped create the draft. I wanted to create a poem with links, and in so doing I realised that that was an important step in creating the atmosphere of the piece.

I also took video diary when I was pregnant, and the lines:

you are solid but unseen, mysterious
as a somersault inside the womb;

were also influenced by the film making process. Well, not the process of making a film, to be more precise the process of using film as a notebook journaling device. So many invisible elements go in to the making of a poem; ones that we forget more often than not; but that’s okay also. Their being lost is part of the poem becoming whole.

Tags: baby, bird, Flight, Karen McCarthy Woolf, piglets

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