Gabrielle Gribbin

Bachelardian Reverie #2

Winter qtr. wk.6

Word count:100

“Reverie Prompt:  pp 88, 93  Create your own reverie in response to Bachelard’s reverie:  “Reveries of idealization develop, not by letting oneself be taken in by memories, but by constantly dreaming the values of being whom one would love.”  Great dreamers dream their double.  Can you create a reverie to demonstrate how and why the passion of your current field study sustains you?  How is your “letter” (e.g., c is for cacao) your magnified double?  (E.g., While tasting Kallari chocolate can you re-member how C might idealize cacao?) “”Tell me whom you create and I shall tell you who you are.'” Suggestion: Use your reverie on an idealized passion to create a poem that evokes the sensation of how your passion is sustaining you.”

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Think of that weight that you hold,

the force that you create downward. Your feet, ever aware of the

gravity of you.

The motion on our propulsion starts

from heel to toe… ponder this thought.

Continuing your forward thought place toes first to

meet with the earth, ease into the placement of self,

then only after insuring this is the route you wish

to take lower your heel.

The intention of the slightest

inching joints is where we begin, from these inches

gain feet, strides, bounds, and leaps of expression.

The body is my temple, I will it to be.