I am born of stones

Paul writes:
I tried to use a rhythmic repeat technique of key emotional words/states to depict a sadness and re-building of re-birth. In other words, producing a commonly shared truth by metaphor, bringing together two objects of sensations (in this case, hard earth imagery of earth, stones, rock) against human elements, e.g., loneliness, birth, etc., and identifying their common quality. The reader then can identify the common linkages for their own experience. This technical aspects doesn't distract from the creative process or subject matter involved with this poem, one of movement within time or life or one of solitary reflection and transition, perhaps from walking alone along a beach and crushing shells under foot. Again, my severe pruning of the unnecessary increases the potency and, I feel, a successful poignant punch of what I saw and felt is carried to the reader.

Paul Kloppenborg works as a librarian in Melbourne, Australia. He is widely published in both print and electronic journals. His first anthology (along with 6 other international poets) was published by Two Dog Press in 1998. A second anthology was published by Funky Dog Press, Detroit, in 1999. Paul's first chapbook, Poetic Confectionery (2002), is available from the Canadian publisher CNV. Paul's concrete poetry chapbook Confetti is due for publication in 2006. He is also administrator of the online poetry network, The Muse. Paul can be reached via email at paul.kloppenborg@rmit.edu.au.