Friday, December 12, 2008

The Wordsworth Effect

Is when you return to a place

and it's not nearly as amazing

as you once thought it was,


or when you remember how you felt

about something (or someone) but you know 
you'll never feel that way again.


It's when you notice someone has turned

down the volume, and you realize 
it was you; when you have
the

suspicion that you've met the enemy

and you are it, or when you get 
your best ideas from your sister's journal.

Is also-to be fair-the thing that enables

you to walk for miles and miles chanting to
yourself in iambic pentameter


and to travel through Europe with 
only a clean shirt, a change of
underwear, a notebook and a pen.


And yes: is when you stretch out
on your couch and summon up ten thousand
daffodils, all dancing in the breeze.

Joyce Sutphen

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