Poems

Chapter 8: HE MADE THIS SCREEN

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A collection of concise lyric pieces that employ precise diction, striking imagery, and ironic observation to examine perception, art, and everyday life. Poems shift between playful personifications of machines and animals and sober meditations on aesthetic judgment, moral intention, and human foibles, often using concrete objects as metaphors. The speaker alternates between wit and seriousness, favoring compressed forms, unexpected juxtapositions, and careful detail to probe how language, experience, and power shape understanding.

HE MADE THIS SCREEN

not of silver nor of coral, but of weatherbeaten laurel.

Here, he introduced a sea uniform like tapestry;

here, a fig-tree; there, a face; there, a dragon circling space—

designating here, a bower; there, a pointed passion-flower.