Autumn
Poetry · Work by Tina.
Callum’s annotated reading is still to come — for now the piece is shown as Tina wrote it.
Photo: Maresa Smith / Death to Stock
Distilled from a word-web of autumn images.
Bare trees into pink pastel leaves,
tired with hope, leaning to the sweet warmth.
What is taught here
The moves taught against poetry, drawn from the practice's own technique record. They describe the category rather than this piece in particular.
- Tone Identification via Textual Evidence
- Identifying a poem's tone and justifying it with specific textual evidence and named poetic devices, rather than asserting tone impressionistically.
- Repetition and Rhyme as Evidence of Thematic Argument
- Reading formal and structural features, repetition and identical end rhyme among them, as deliberate choices reinforcing a poem's thematic argument.
- Volta/Structural Analysis
- Naming specific structural devices, the volta or turn among them, and asking how structural elements enable or resolve a poem's meaning.
- Hyperbaton / Grammar-Inversion Analysis in Poetry
- Reading inverted or unconventional word order as a deliberate choice, and asking what the inversion achieves that ordinary syntax would not.
- Poetic Conceit Analysis
- Following an extended metaphor across a whole poem and testing whether it holds, rather than reading images one at a time.
- Haiku Practice
- Working within a fixed short form so that every word must earn its place, and compression becomes the lesson.
- Title as Poetic Texture
- Treating the title as part of the poem's texture rather than a label attached to it.
- Poem-Paragraph Planning Scaffold
- A five-step reusable planning template that scaffolds a full analytical paragraph on a poem before drafting.
More poetry published here, and the Clinic works the same moves at the level of a single sentence.