“Paradise net”

   Collage by Randall Hamilton

I strongly dreamed this term, “paradise net.” When I awoke it had lost its meaning but retained the sense, the odor, the aura, that it was indeed meaningful

what could it mean?

Each word alone — easy. Combined, each comes into question in relation to the other term. We can speculate, but the meaning of the term will not resolve. The speculation is a game (the surrealists loved games) and in games, in chance, they attempted to reach a state of playfulness and of “distracted attention” or “passive attention” which would render them open to the messages and the wavelength of sur-reality.

We can speculate, but it will not resolve.

Terry Eagleton, in “Literary Theory: An Introduction,” wrote: Poetry activates the full body of the signifier, presses the word to work to its utmost under the intense pressure of surrounding words, and so to release its richest potential.

Poetry as olive oil, poetry as wine!