i. thesis
The cause of creativity is loss.
ii. hypothesis
The heightening of the senses as the car,
out of control, skids shrieking into concrete;
the desperate diligence the child acquires,
drawing designs while parents howl, bawl, hurl
plates, shatter windows:
………………………….the need to keep things fixed,
held in one place, in just the right place, just
so, the mot juste, it wasn’t like that, that’s
not what you said, the diegetic rigor,
hypertrophy of aísthesis ingrained …
… perfect attentiveness to bygone pain.
iii. metathesis
The loss of creativity is love.