Conundrum

Question 8: Can poetry not be a conundrum? The smallest units of written poetry are letters and words. [Conundrum] itself is a poem, starting life as joke Latin amongst Renaissance under-graduates (conandrum, quonundrum), by the Restoration a riddling pun, now today, an intricate problem of any sort. We venture forth to answer questions, only to find the answer has more questions. Your poem can also be a constellation of consonants, concert of connections, confluences of content; a contrast of consciousness, confession of confusions, confirmations of contradiction; a comparison of contrariness, contact of convolutions, concatenations of concerns; a contract with contemplation...   

 

Photograph of a conundrum: the visitor’s members’ ticket entrance at the old Fitzroy Football Ground, Edinburgh Gardens, Brunswick Street, North Fitzroy, 6^th of October 2021, 3:22 pm.