SPACES the imagist form

Gael Turnbull(1928-2004,a Scottish doctor-poet created the imagist Spaces form in his collection Briefly (1967)

a three line poem with a larger than usual blank space( ??)for 2nd 'line'.

Example of mine to explain

title Spaces-Catch-22

Line 1 A window pane shatters

Line 2

Line 3 Nobody makes a home run

Turnbull called poems using his device ‘Spaces’, and noted of these ‘The visual “space” is,a pause or hesitation, even a temporary dislocation of attention’ .

Thus the reader supplies his own imagination thereto for line 2

Here is an example of Turnbull's form from his book Briefly(1967) an early example of a form he invented, a two line poem with a larger than usual space between the lines(without a title) The ever-presence .... of your absence. [‘The ever-presence’, 155]