Uptick
Uptick - meaning Summary
Time and Perception Colliding
Uptick presents time as overlapping minutes that chase one another, leaving no room for waste. The speaker returns to a painting in the present—part-seen, half-turned, wary but oriented toward a coming vision. Poetry here is described as dissolving into sensation and then reading that sensation back to the reader. The closing lines register this as a tentative, word-heavy but valued impression.
Read Complete AnalysesWe were sitting there, and I made a joke about how it doesn't dovetail: time, one minute running out faster than the one in front it catches up to. That way, I said, there can be no waste. Waste is virtually eliminated. To come back for a few hours to the present subject, a painting, looking like it was seen, half turning around, slightly apprehensive, but it has to pay attention to what's up ahead: a vision. Therefore poetry dissolves in brilliant moisture and reads us to us. A faint notion. Too many words, but precious.
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