In his "A Defense of Poetry" Percy Bysshe Shelley writes "Poetry is not like
reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will." I picture my
poetry in this realm, untamed by my conscious level as best I can. My poetry is
modernism unafraid to dabble in any genre or movement, operating under a modernist
mantra that the only truth we have are the lies we live in society. The term "rubber band"
refers to the reader's state of mind during a reading. If they dive into discomfort of a
poem, then they are expanding their horizons. If they resist, feeling the poem has strayed
too far in some capacity, then they have contracted. I would hope everyone wants to
broaden their outlook. But either way, we are all rubber bands.