The Daily Glance
C. J. Martin’s WIW?3: Hold me tight. Make me happy is from a longer work titled What is Worship? It’s a dense chapbook. Poem “50/51” starts off talking about a “Vertical laugh,” but we could talk about the work consisting of vertical thoughts. There’s no obvious beginning or end, but there is a telos of sorts, though it’s not given to us—we only see glimmers as the speaker tries to lay claim to ideas.
As everything else going discipline
not these not defeated
in a lonely absolutely b/c
Being everyday plain,
mind grates everything.
The chapbook is filled with religious imagery (temples, Being, Christians, naves), but I’m not sure how they tie together, and ultimately, I’m left desiring to see how this chapbook fits into the larger project.
C. J. Martin’s WIW?3: Hold me tight. Make me happy is from a longer work titled What is Worship? It’s a dense chapbook. Poem “50/51” starts off talking about a “Vertical laugh,” but we could talk about the work consisting of vertical thoughts. There’s no obvious beginning or end, but there is a telos of sorts, though it’s not given to us—we only see glimmers as the speaker tries to lay claim to ideas.
As everything else going discipline
not these not defeated
in a lonely absolutely b/c
Being everyday plain,
mind grates everything.
The chapbook is filled with religious imagery (temples, Being, Christians, naves), but I’m not sure how they tie together, and ultimately, I’m left desiring to see how this chapbook fits into the larger project.
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