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That something IS something---

moon is woman
stars are paper
night is gift
moon is woman
sky and stars are turning

someday these copulas will be seen for
what they are-- crutches for metaphor,
comparisons that fail to advance the
understood cliche-- cliche's are good
if advanced. "Daphne runs from Apollo
just as a deer runs from a greyhound."
the comparison does nothing to advance
the idea of 'chase.'

"moon is a woman"

moon rises her leisure through the lace-
tops of the evening pines, a woman.

Now it seems to me-- but who am I to affront
this poet? What credentials do I have?-- it
seems to me that my lines above 'advances'
the proposition that 'moon is woman' by shared
movement that eliminates the need for 'is.'

There is a jerkiness to my ear when I read
X is Y
A is B

Except of course in those delights found in
sentential logic-- pretending no poetry.

I do love the baby references, tho.

SBern