This is a poem about writing poems, I guess.
Saying It Straight
I have some good news,
not that no news is good news
(while elsewhere they say
such a thing often,
I won’t.) Instead I shall say
it straight: even here
in these made up words
you shall find the elements
of deeply true things.
May 28, 2009 12:41 PM
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Amen to that.
ReplyDeleteElements of deeply true things, leaving some effort on our part to piece it together into a whole...as it should be.
ReplyDeleteyeh.
ReplyDeletei just
feel fortunate
that
once in a while
i can hear
the ring
of these things
deeply true