Let's begin with what they do share. Color and sometimes shape. Yes, there are round poems.
Poems can (and one might argue should) be edited.
Ah, how to edit a blueberry? Perhaps blended in yogurt or baked as muffin or bread. Yes, how to edit the seasonal when it should be but isn't ripe?
To an unripe poem, let it sit on the sill of page. Or recycle. Begin again. And again.
(H. cont.)
ReplyDeleteThere is a swirl of people on a platform
that turns out to be a train station
Steam is pouring out, bells are clanging
There is a sense of movement and rushing