Clutter. A Poetic Experiment of Language, Consciousness, and Time - Roy Dean Doughty

Clutter

A Poetic Experiment in Language, Consciousness, and Time

Clutter is an ambitious and contemplative work of contemporary poetry composed of 432 poems written over 432 consecutive days. Each poem follows a carefully structured form, yet arises from the immediacy of lived experience-capturing the shifting impressions of daily life as they unfold in time.

Rather than focusing on a single theme, Clutter embraces multiplicity. It gathers fragments of thought, sensation, memory, and observation into a unified field, inviting the reader to consider how meaning emerges moment by moment. In a world saturated with information and experience, these poems ask: how do we remain present without becoming fragmented?

Conceived as a "monument of time," the collection explores the relationship between language, consciousness, and temporality. Through its unique structure-both sequential and reflective-the work may be read linearly or entered at any point, revealing unexpected connections across days, seasons, and states of awareness.

At once disciplined and expansive, Clutter invites the reader not only to read, but to listen-to experience the musicality of language as it moves through time. It is a meditation on attention, perception, and the evolving nature of the present moment.