Demi - Glace - Craig Cornish's Blog

A novel, fiction, non fiction, and all the genres is the sauce - Espagnole and brown stock and a bouquet garni reduced until it becomes a novella and then a short story and finally, after the impurities are skimmed and it's seasoned, it becomes a demi-glace - a poem, yet, it's not that simple. A true poem has more reponsibilities than what it's derived from. Restructured prose is not truly a poem because a book tells us a story, while a poem elicits emotions from which we internalize our own story. It doesn't answer questions, it creates them. It shouldn't be overladen with descriptions like fancy adjectives and adverbs but clever triggers that inspire their own colors. A book ends, but a poem never truly does... .. and adjectives