"Our oldest human artistic expressions are rhythms, dances, and making harmonic sound together."

I love all expressive language, and I love that our oldest human artistic expressions are rhythms, dances, and making harmonic sound together. I have this kind of pattern hunger, looking for the catchy repetition and variation which hooks itself memorably into your mind. Poetry, to me, is much closer to music and song than narrative prose because it is made up of this pattern of repetition and variation, with language. I am always looking for the ‘Volta’ - the place the poem takes a surprising turn, and opens up something else. I see it like a bridge in music, a change of key, or a minor note. Of course, the ‘Volta’ is also the name for a dance that two people do together, which fits with this too!