“...is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy...that sense of freedom from time limits and space limits...” Ezra Pound

Images are truly powerful things. In a single image, we can find such a vortex tantamount to a single drop of ocean water. The only difference is that, as writer’s, it’s our responsibility to load these fused ideas, to make sure they remain relevant to our ideas.

Of course there are only so many ideas we can control. After that, our readers bring their own interpretations, our words craft their own phrases, and these images take on their own stories.

So how do we begin an image?

From Virginia Woolf's passage of a man’s cigar smoke, we can see this cluster of ideas, com...

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