THE FOREST OF WORDS: A Literary Trekker's Guide

	In the forest of words
	countless life forms take shape.

	Words nourish many creatures
	and over time vast eco-systems of language
	evolve and mutate.

	All words feed off of each other
	and silence is a primal bedrock
	from which each word takes shape.

	When entering semantic jungles
	a degree of alertness is advised:

	All too easily
	words can seduce us
	reduce us, or induce us
	to buy-believe-sell-relieve
	many flimsy things
	through their hypnotic pleas . . .

	Poetry in particular is
	a venus-fly-trap
	whose honeyed sweetness
	sticks to neural tracks.


Juanita: (scratching her head) Doesn't this seem like an anti-poem?

Jack:    I'm not sure, but the 'forest of literature' seems pretty crowded to me. 
         And each work in that forest is heading towards obscurity.

Shu:     (sighing) That's okay. Forests need to maintain a balance of growth and 
         decay.  Fear not – the compost from our consciousness influences others 
         in countless unseen ways.


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from Lit-A-Rupture: A Post Literary Construction by T Newfields
SUMMARY: A conversation, poem, and image about the ecology of words
KEYWORDS:  literary jungles, predatory print, exotic lexemes, semantic strategies

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955 - ?)
Begun: 2000 in Nagoya, Japan  ⨳ Finished: 2018 in Yokohama, Japan
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted

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