The Base Macian

TO MAKE: a
verb, from the base macian
meaning “fitting” in Old English;
related to match; past: made. A good old thing
resulting in an object
one could use. A table, a teething ring,
the dinner, a pair of shoes.
 
POEM: a noun. Partakes of the nature of speech
and also song; nearly always rhythmical,
and usually metaphorical ¾ e.g., table,
teething ring, a pair of shoes, and so forth.
“Arouses strong emotion because of its beauty.”
From the French or Latin, poema, from
the Greek
An early variant of poiema, “fiction,
poem,”
from poiein, “to create.”
 
TO CREATE: a verb. To bring into being,
to make, in the sense of “to form out of nothing,”
as in the world, or something made of words.
To make something happen, “to create difficulties,”
to originate: the first table, the first shoes;
or, as an actor playing the first role.
In this way we must be the creators of ourselves.
Used of a divine or supernatural being,
as in “the Universe,” a metaphor.

* Katy
Evans-Bush was born in New York City and has lived in London since she was
nineteen.  Her first collection, Me
and the Dead (Salt, 2008) was featured in the Forward Anthology 2009. Her
pamphlet Oscar & Henry is
published by Rack Press. She writes the literary blog Baroque in Hackney http://baroqueinhackney.wordpress.com and her third collection, Egg
Printing Explained, will be published by Salt in 2011.