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Poetry's Trans . . .

So I’ve been playing around with the idea

of how poets make poems.

How some, that I call transcribers,

try to take a snapshot of the moment.

How others - translators -

try to extrapolate the essence of the moment.

And how still others - transformers -

try to springboard beyond the moment.

These three non-hierarchical elements -

transcription, translation, transformation -

engage to different degrees

when poets make poems.

Tim Burton's Corpse Bride