Does a poem run most smoothly on its own steam? Momentum? Once on the page, does the reader supply the heat source?
Cooking with gas accommodates so much. Food served room-temperature (does the room matter?) often improves the cooked meal. Rice salads. Marinated figs left on the counter cooling. Left for the taking. When is poetry best served room-temperature?
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ReplyDeleteliking that counter
full of promise
a few leftover bowls
and some ice cream sticks
that cocoanut middle of the candy that got left
behind
some times not the knowing
but the wishing to be known--
nameless fear of the broken spirit
covered in steam