what about the poems that try to encapsulate the happy feelings?
the immediates, the too instantaneous to write languidly?
there are emotions that strike you like lightning
***** you like a pin
tickle you like a feather
the emotions that slap you across the face and ignite as quickly as a match, but then are extinguished just as fast. and i guess writing about the small stream of quickly cooling smoke isn't enough.
everyone writes about the depths and the caverns of sadness and sorrow, guilt and regret.
perhaps it's easier to notice the details of an emotion that rips through you much slower.
but the sharpness and the searing of giddiness, surprise, and shock flash through you in a blinding instance, white-hot and cauterizing.
we should write about those more, i think.