SNAPSHOTS OF MYTHSCAPES:
13 LINES FROM SORROW ARROW BY EMILY KENDAL FREY

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A Breakdown of Lines in Sorrow Arrow

Snapshots of Mythscapes (their inherent emotion?) = 30%
A line that could find the root of the mind searching back = 20%
Rituals of Being: what feeling proliferates the moment to momentness of the day to dayness = 40%
Arrows: (through the poem flesh, an acuteness) = 10%

Process

One line selected, then drawn. 13 times.

13 Selected Lines: 

Trees lifting in the mist

When I stick my hand in the death flower it holds

The sun sheds on the garden

Every statue had bullet-sized holes in its feet

Three ferns outside your house symmetrical and reaching

The black dog eyes the roses

Under the earth’s pink blanket is a set of ribs

The moon, fat and hot

A mountain rose like a lung in the distance

We’re sitting in the road with our fears fountaining

Night is a cortex fissuring

I shouldered arrows of light

A globular eye/Cracked in the nest

After Notes:

I chose lines for a variety of reasons, but mainly because they had a compelling image for me. All the lines I selected to draw ended up being lines that I categorized afterwards as being snapshots of mythscape. There were many examples of this type of line throughout the book; I could have drawn hundreds of images. I then further categorized other types of lines that I felt comprised the entire book.

By Rendering Snapshots of Mythscape in Emily Kendal Frey’s Sorrow Arrow:

by rendering snapshots of mythscape, a feeling creeps out without knowing its felt

by rendering snapshots of mythscape, the constraints of the fingered hand on the mind’s eye

by rendering snapshots of mythscape, a line over and over again like a chant as the pencil finds the image

by rendering snapshots of mythscape, a contemplation about how my being transposes across another’s meanings

by rendering snapshots of mythscape, a focused intimacy