Entry 549 — “Cursive”
Here’s Marton Koppany’s latest punctuation poem. It is also a visual poem. Most specifically, it is a visio-ellipsisentered.
That’s partly a joke but also serious. In my taxonomy it is in the subclass, ellipsisentered poems. Above it, from lowest to highest, are punctuational poems, infraverbal poems, visual poems, pluraesthetic poems, poems, literature . . .
Obviously, only someone famiar with Marton’s work would recognize it as an ellipsis. It took me several moments to realize when I first saw it, and I’m a Koppany Specialist! I very much like it, in part because I can’t quite find words to pin it down with. I think it emphatically says what an ellipsis says, to wit: “no need to say more.” What it’s not saying more about is the winter alias death that falling leaves are an ellipsis to. Presenting the leaves cursively is an excellent touch, making the final transition the leaves depict all part of a graceful unhurried rhythm–in the larger flow of Nature.