Robert Bly says "leap". Beats did it. Freud or Jung started it. Credit James Joyce with inventing it. "Stream of Consciousness." In poetry, it is difficult to define: each word or phrase juxtaposed/next to/associated with another word or phrase becomes a connection for readers to puzzle, and every reader hears something different. Look closely. Michael Rehling isn't just doing stream of consciousness; good poets control "random" words and phrases. Rehling controls with Love, Music, Travel. Three forms of motion influence how far afield we may interpret the puzzle before slipping into "opinion".
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MICHAEL REHLING
Song of my Lover
scat singing talker
fast
unconnected thoughts
reeling toward
highways mental
(places in
landscapes
uncontrolled)
no signs on this
roadway
but
heart talking
i hear
tenderness
(amongst noise
in my stringed
psyche)
playing along
with our loves tune
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