Captured Thought: Visualizing Millions of Thoughts All At Once

There's the old saying that a picture has a million stories alone. Sadly, some cannot capture the arrow in the FedEx logo or see through optical allusions. The thing is, even the most simplest things can have a profound meaning, with endless possibilities. So now if you're wondering what "Now I got it!" moment I've captured in my head, let me introduce you to Mr. E.E. Cummings.

In class, reading Mr. Cummings poems seemed redundant and meaningless, so meaningless in fact I literally wanted to tear my packet of poems and feed them to live eels! Going past the philistine moment I've had, Mr. Allen opened one of my eyes to allow the myself and the class to envision something greater, yet complex. When we were going through the "1(a...(a leaf falls on loneliness)" poem, he talked about how when the poem is written vertically, as he claimed Mr. Cummings insisted on doing, he talks about how the poem was formed, in accordance to the shape with words and symbols. Apparently the falling leaf falls according to the smooth curvature of the words and symbols. Then I opened both my eyes to welcome the limitless ideas that stormed into my brain, happily envisioning what E.E. Cummings could've thought of writing the poem. I envisioned a tree with an empty spot, showing that the leaf fell out. I also saw the meaning in accordance to the words, loneliness; like having a leaf fall inside you.

So that concludes my "Now I got it!" moment. I started off mad, if not furious and with a despise consisting of great intensity. I realized what vertical listening was from last semester, an adjacent possible for this activity we've conducted in class. It's like playing a guitar, you never know what tone, rhythm, or chaos you're gonna orchestrate once you start composing and playing.

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