Monday, August 10, 2026

To a Poet, Being a Poem, A Poem She Becomes

 

Soft-spoken necessity,

freezing down, down

those shoulders,

where affinity unbroken

goes on unspoken—

 

thus, as not just any poise,

playing proves presence

which, still holding fast,

in reaching out, precedes

taut and unstrung sights

 

like tones to be picked on

or plucked off a cello's neck,

so the self-same sounding,

seated depth would list

and bow—to a gliding hand.

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