I'm writing poetry, and often when I start off it feels like some of my weirder ideas just sound willfully eccentric and obscure, or just whimsical, quirk, wordiness for the sake of it. Houw do you strike that balance between free form surrealy stuffs, without distracting from the thing as a whole ?
one approach is to try to get way way way way too surreal, and then wait for the inevitable epic surprise when the meaning suddenly shines through anyway, with the power of 1000 suns