Gabrielle Gribbin

Bachelardian Reverie #4

Winter qtr. wk. 8

Work count:100

“Listening to the trees of the night prepare their tempests, the poet will say: ‘The forest shivers under the caresses of the cristal-fingered delirium..’ That which is electric in the shiver—whether it runs along man’s nerves or along the fibers of the forest—has met a sensitive detector in the poet’s image.  Don’t such images bring us the revelation of a sort of intimate cosmicity?  They unite the outside cosmos with an inside cosmos.  Poetic exaltation—the crystal-handed delirium—makes an intimate forest shiver within us.”

Use this prompt to evoke through a poetic image a light delirium in which your nerves run along the “fibers” of your field study.

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I finger the nape of my neck, brushing the peachy

fuzz sprawled across Me

here starts the palpation.

Strumming the superficial layers of skin and muscle

with ardent care.

Detaching from the whirring of thought and incessant

prodding, stimulated touch assures my heart to open

allowing lashes to meet allows anterior eyelids to

Open

Able now to tune-in to my humming vibration and

gingerly place palm to solar plexus to feel

Triangles meeting, creating a light to project

Outward.

A shiver corrects my posture as I continue to enjoy

my palpable skin.

“Its beauty comes from the ability to manipulate”