Classmate Response Week 1

I'm writing in response to Michael Brown's "Free Write" entry for week one.

For Michael's "free entry," he chose to create a list of words that he felt--with "no particular reason why"--predisposed to and then wrote a short poem hinged upon those words. After reading this in Michael's journal I immediately thought of what Richard Hugo writes early on in The Triggering Town.

He writes: "Our triggering subjects, like our words, come from obsessions we must submit to, whatever the social cost [...] It is narcissistic, vain, egotistical, unrealistic, selfish and hateful to assume emotional ownership of a town or a word. It is also essential" (14).

I think truth of the matter is that we all have these sort of unknown "obsessions"--certain aesthetic predispositions or lexical inclinations that are inescapable.  I find it really interesting that the excavation and interrogation of these "obsessions" unmask these almost hidden triggering subjects.