Black Mountain Pt. 3 - Pinhead Gunpowder

Lippold wanted «To create a memorial

Something large enough to walk through

Like architecture, linear, in pure experience

Otherwise nonfunctional»

Like a novel

Like the story of your life

Like Dahlberg’s garden

Full of bucolic delights

So what did it mean

When Dahlberg changed his mind

Sweet creeks and leaves

Changed to serpentine trees + vines

Like a novel

«A writer should dig out

The things that they would not

Admit to themself»

That’s what Olsen said

A disillusioned student put it more simply

«There's not enough character here

And too much personality»