A Writer's Notebook, Day Six-Hundred-And-Forty-Eight

I am going to attempt, tonight, to write a bit more of a craft focused entry tonight, but one that relates to considerations around the contimuing protests surrounding police killings of black men in this country in general and the death of George Floyd  in specific.  One of the things that I consider, in terms of my own writing, when I am working to discuss certain issues, like systemic racism as a random example, is the question of how to explain a perspective without alienating anyone who might actually benefit from it, if they were open to the concept.  Their are many ways to address this, even arguments that support the conclusion of not considering the issue at all.  There is, to be clear, no one answer, as far as I am concerned, and I do not always approach from the same angle, but one that I find of great value for myself is attempting to do so without relying upon the specific content and context of the issue, but instead the structure.  In mind, this is essentially what metaphor is about at root: using one thing to stand in for another in a way that allows the alteration of how each part is seen.  This can be done in ways that are clear, with fables and allegories that make complete sense and can easily be mapped back to the real world analog, but it is also possible to stretch the implementation of the structure in ways that make it accurate but not obvious, so that it can be seen and absorbed without recognition, and hopefully later reemerge in relationship to a real world context.  My goal, quite often, is for the underlying reality behind the poem to remain hidden, so that I can offer a perspective, can place the reader into a specific relationship with the problem or issue I am exploring, but without t
risking a reader rejecting that viewpoint out of hand due to the context.  For me, this is a way to subversively open the mind to bew w