If I could go back
If I could go back
there is much I would have me do
I didn't do then—
but, busy with all I was doing,
how would I do it?
and when?
Labels: poetry
Concrete terms have physical, real-world referents; abstract terms do not. However, all terms are, in a sense, 'abstract.' We simply cannot attempt the clean ontological division between the sets of concrete and abstract terms that we do between the outer physical and the inner mental universes.
—Don Paterson, The Poem
—Don Paterson, The Poem
Friday, May 19, 2006
there is much I would have me do
I didn't do then—
but, busy with all I was doing,
how would I do it?
and when?
