Gargoyle 11
cover etching by Scott McIntyre
publication date 5/25/1979

Ratios

Christine Lahey

Practice is to poetry as Czerny is to childhood
Premise is to poetry as "once upon a time" is to fairy tale
Presage is to poetry as spindle is to Sleeping Beauty
Perspicacity is to poetry as tower window is to Rapunzel
Privation is to poetry as birdcage is to chaffinch
Pain is to poetry as ash is to Yggdrasil
Pathos is to poetry as "I yearn" is to Sappho
Paradox is to poetry as white asparagus is to Mexico
Persona is to poetry as "rosyfingered" is to Homer
Patrimony is to poetry as Milton is to Blake
Pointillism is to poetry as ivory is to keyboard
Pattern is to poetry as voiceprint is to magnetic tape
Paucity is to poetry as bunghole is to cask
Presumption is to poetry as toupee is to Yul Brynner
Parsimony is to poetry as hypotenuse is to right triangle
Passion is to poetry as Christ is to Magdalen
Politics is to poetry as ptomaine is to tin can
Polemic is to poetry as soap box is to Trafalgar Square
Panegyric is to poetry as Beatrice is to Dante
Portent is to poetry as potsherd is to kitchen midden
Prophecy is to poetry as mantle is to Elijah
Poetics is to poetry as Gog is to Magog