PILING ON THE METAPHORS
It is my contention that, basically, poems are piles of metaphors stacked on top of each other like those funny-looking block stacks in a Jenga! game, with holes for the bits you’ve left out (or have taken out) because they were not needed to transport your reader into some other point-of-view. That juxtaposition of metaphors works because of ability of the mind of the listener or the reader to make connections between the images the poet offers up. The audience…