Defining poetry

Defining Poetry on a Sunday Morning in Bed


Poetry:  Off-ramp for creativity on our subjective turnpikes
                  when routine paves over shards and gems.

Poetry:  Desire.
Poetry:  Meditating on horizons of concept
                  or experience so as to hover above it.
Poetry:  To make manifest.
Poetry:  Death fright.

Poetry:  Bloom.             
Poetry:  In our attics, an art deco time machine:
                  Polishing. Tinkering. Ordering knobs on eBay.
Poetry:  Faces lit around the campfire.
Poetry:  The virgin birth.

Poetry:  Regime.
Poetry:  Denny’s, Tangiers, trains, New Orleans,
                  The Times, Tegucigalpa, et cetera.
Poetry:  Rugby fools without helmets in the mud.
Poetry:  Pickup lines to ourselves.

Poetry:  How much of it--how stunning--has never become
                   in the yawning canyon of man.

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