in defense of gardenias

I wish i had the gift of titling my stuff like wendell berry. im not even asking to be like dylan thomas or whitman or anyone like that. actually the more i think about it, dylan thomas didnt always have such great titles. and wendell, while he has 'the peace of wild things,' which i would say is certainly an excellent title, he also has 'renewing husbandry.' which subtly is a great title, but that is perhaps only revealed upon reading the work in its entirety. so then, what am i going for, with a title? The short of it is that I don't really know. like all things, titles contain multitudes, they are not separate from the work, but at the same time they are not an introduction, a summary, or an abstraction of themes and motifs. I don't think I know what title's are then, at least I don't have some cut and dry definition, a rule of thumb or what not. Its kind of the irony that Twain fit into some of his essays. I'm reminded of his list of protocols on what an eligible bachelor should do in the event he comes across a house on fire. In a nutshell, save the damsel first and the mother in law last. (notably, furniture comes ahead of the mother in law). Realistically though, we know Twain is in fact parodying that anyone would put themselves in a position to create such a hierarchy, less one so self-evident. but thats a tangent, kind of. What i'm saying is, who should place expectations on constructions like titles?never judge a book by its cover yes, but by extension, never judge a book by its title either. i think thats what im getting at.

extend it to record title's

sgt peppers lonely hearts club band- named for the subject, a fictional band

ok, computer-theme is angst of decentralization due to technology.

dookie-its green so i dont even rate it, but im at a loss here.

horses-a most significant punk record, never have i ever conjured up images of horses while listening to it. horses run free (in theory, though the horse we know today is a product of tens of thousnads of years of domestication) so maybe like its about a youthful need to run free? im in no position to say.

blah blah blah. i started this intending to write about how im sitting on the porch smelling the gardenia's in our backyard. and that they smell good, they do. and that was going to be it. nice and simple. gardenias smell nice. oh well.

just so its here-http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/160/

renewing husbandry.