Can performance and page be separated?
Perception is personal. The body either chirps/coos & hums or crimps & cringes. Sometime response is fashion-driven, bowing to culture or literary stock. Then, there’s the poet’s reputation.
Certain foods have moments of being chic & trendy. Some, inherently abhorrent to one mouth or another. Others just get the job done – every time – without fanfare. No grandstanding. Think, carrot. Think onion.
Crockpot
ReplyDeletesimmers it down to the sultriest forms
and longs to be elsewhere, otherwise
Then hearing a fizzling drawl
and wishing it were rain
and not verbs, misplaced soldiers
of some since served sentence
she watches out the window for a particular cloud
configuration, a signal from the tropics
a visit from a good friend
or absent memory
no jazz to account for any mistakes
just the cloud itself, just its promise