13 | "How the curving cheek is solicitous" [pantoum]

Considering how exaggerated music is
mightn't one tone it down a notch or two?
the note that thoroughly buys its own imperatives
is persuasively dogmatic   in my view
mightn't one tone it down a notch or two?
but no   its solace lies in how the hyperbole
is persuasively dogmatic   in my view
this illustrates what one might accomplish verbally

but no   its solace lies in how the hyperbole
can become seemingly cogent   dreamably plausible
this illustrates what one might accomplish verbally
when the concentrated emphasis is pleasurable
can become seemingly cogent   dreamably plausible
what can? and why?   who would explain persuasion?
when the concentrated emphasis is pleasurable
is the form the point? or a sly narcotic evasion?

what can? and why?   who would explain persuasion?
we're talking around the problem of formal beauty
is the form the point? or a sly narcotic evasion?
is discordance then   a mode of authorial duty?
we're talking around the problem of formal beauty
how the curving cheek is solicitous of the lover's kiss
is discordance then   a mode of authorial duty
considering how exaggerated music is?



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Pantoum beginning and ending with a line borrowed from the title poem of Leslie Scalapino's Considering how exaggerated music is (1982)

This is no. 13 in a sequence, Early Autumn Pantoums