Root
noun
1. a part of the body of a plant that develops, anchoring the plant and absorbing nutriment and moisture.
2. the embedded or basal portion of a hair, tooth, nail, nerve, etc.
3. the source or origin of a thing: The love of money is the root of all evil.
4. an offshoot or scion.
5. Mathematics: a quantity that, when multiplied by itself a certain number of times, produces a given quantity
6. Grammar.: a morpheme that underlies an inflectional or derivational paradigm
7. roots: the personal relationships, affinity for a locale, habits, and the like, that make a country, region, city, or town one's true home: He lived in Tulsa for a few years, but never established any roots there.
8. Music: the lowest tone of a chord when arranged as a series of thirds; the fundamental.
9. Machinery: (in a screw or other threaded object) the narrow inner surface between threads. Compare crest (def. 18), flank (def. 7).
–verb (used without object)
10. to become fixed or established.
–verb (used with object)
11. to pull, tear, or dig up by the roots (often fol. by up or out); to extirpate; exterminate; remove completely (often fol. by up or out): to root out crime.
Let's Discuss!
Hey there!
Now that we've posted I figured I'd go ahead and post this for us to discuss in.
I'm hoping that I'll hear back from Jennifer soon, until then, let's see what we have to say so far!
Hello All! First, I deeply apologize for my thwarted participance. Between limited computer access and my gmail acct. getting all screwed up, I have been off the grid. Anyhow, I have reset the act. etc and am ready to chat about these wonderful poems a la round 2.
ReplyDeleteEileen, I enjoyed seeing your contrast in style with this more lyrical poem to counter your first narrative tooth=imbued one. I love the idea of nature not needing us, growing without us, despite us. Also cool to see echoes of Shana's frogginess in there.
Andrea, the story of the twin and how you brought it forward to your own birth experience and your later issues with pain was staggering. It was really powerful and memorable. This piece will stay with me.
Shana, your poem was in a sense aligned with Andrea's. Loss, the passage of time and the precipitating event of an illness all overlapping to create a very evocative and emotional lyric. This reads like lamentation and elegy for me.
I love how all of your poems have deepened the theme and opened it out in round 2. I am also noticing a striking intimacy coming from the work being generated here.
Kisses from Prague.