An image a cut flower —
two possibilities
fresh & dead
Line breaks
don’t make
prose — poems
1st word is the best word is
the best way
— for a 1st draft
A poem isn’t a gazelle
— it’s a dead fish
for sustenance sauté
to make it leap electrify
—with 12,000 volts
otherwise it will just lie there and stink
A poem can survive w/out rhythm
or rhyme — but then
you could survive
on bread and wine
in a windowless room
If all your poems sound
the same you
‘ve only written one poem
You can’t transcend what
you’ve never held
Find form 1st
abandon after
Don’t let your tools
rust from disuse
— don’t be afraid to break them.
If it doesn’t add it — doesn’t add it — doesn’t add it
if it doesn’t add —doesn’t add — doesn’t add
If it doesn’t add it doesn’t add
it subtracts
Just because it
happened to you it
doesn’t mean it’s
interesting
