My challenge with understand written or spoken words is that I must build an image in order to retain anything that is said or read (or write done notes that I rarely need to re-read). All of your poems do this, but this one does it really well and gives me images that I understand (I have experience weaving) and that build a beautiful picture and insight into your experiences.
In addition, there is an interesting ‘negative mirror’ between my challenge to retain words in my memory by building images and your challenge to retain images by crafting words.
I’m not claiming my situation is has hard as yours, but your descriptions give me insight into how my own brain works, even if it’s in reverse.
I like the notion of that “negative mirror .” And as to the last part, I don’t consider Aphantasia hard or difficult. It just is and I am used to it. It’s interesting though, and writing poems is fun, even when it gets difficult.
One of my favorites of yours.
P… asked me what I liked so much about this poem.
My challenge with understand written or spoken words is that I must build an image in order to retain anything that is said or read (or write done notes that I rarely need to re-read). All of your poems do this, but this one does it really well and gives me images that I understand (I have experience weaving) and that build a beautiful picture and insight into your experiences.
In addition, there is an interesting ‘negative mirror’ between my challenge to retain words in my memory by building images and your challenge to retain images by crafting words.
I’m not claiming my situation is has hard as yours, but your descriptions give me insight into how my own brain works, even if it’s in reverse.
I like the notion of that “negative mirror .” And as to the last part, I don’t consider Aphantasia hard or difficult. It just is and I am used to it. It’s interesting though, and writing poems is fun, even when it gets difficult.