POETRY BRAIN
You’ve probably seen this image before. It’s a cartoon of your brain’s hemispheres and the kinds of thoughts each half of your brain handles. Left brain is straight-line, logical, and full of words and numbers and measurements and stuff like that. Right brain meanders around, spiraling in and out, just seeing what-is and mostly having a hard time talking about it. I was reading Leonard Shlain’s book, THE ALPHABET VERSUS THE GODDESS: The Conflict Between Word and Image. In it,…