pot-bellied chinese lions ponder infinity with mismatched dreams of opulent infinity
William Dexter Wade is a Senior Scholar in linguistics. Turning to fiction in retirement, he has published two short stories. During his thirty-four years as an academic, he published five books and monographs, ten chapters in books, twelve journal articles, and numerous published abstracts, and book reviews. He edited the Canadian Review of Physical Anthropology for four years.
Posted on September 5, 2009 in Surreal
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September 5th, 2009 at 7:31 am
Should one of those rhyme words be “serenity or “fidelity”? Do lions ponder? Maybe a picture of those particular strange chinese lions would help turn it into some meaning. I think the lions protect serenity with fidelity but are not serene themselves.
February 8th, 2010 at 4:02 pm
Roberta:
Perhaps it will help if I explain that ‘Pondrous Dreams’ is a found poem composed of words from a pool snipped from newspapers. I was bound by the words in the pool and this seemed the best of many possible arrangements.