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(a) Work on Myth
Posted 1 June 2018
Filed under: poems | Tags: Barrett Watten, myth, Nathaniel Mackey, poetry
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Filed under: poems | Tags: Barrett Watten, myth, Nathaniel Mackey, poetry

Dispatches from the Poetry Wars has shared a lively back and forth between, mainly, Barrett Watten and Nathaniel Mackey, which, in turn, inspired some lively on-line discussion that turned, in part, around ‘myth’. Interested parties are encouraged to investigate the Dispatches site further for much related matter.
Before I sit down to work through Hans Blumenberg’s Work on Myth, I append the short poem below from Ladonian Magnitudes as a humble contribution to the communal deliberation!
Decay Pattern
When on earth
was myth a mouth
every head muttered
or is noys or
babble first what
articulate tongues
propagated on air
to ear empty
of echo of
familiar sound