Drenched With Poetry
Vulnerable - open
to the entrapments
of stylistic fixation,
knowing
their tendencies
toward language-centered
relative positions
(a horizontal mapping, of sorts)
and that editing composition
literally recalls attention
to their previous
spatial arrangements - they,
nevertheless, begin to read
on the same page
Their first instances;
star, blue, orchid,
bloodrush . . . explosion !
Their tongues wet
with anticipation
they reinvent word patterns -
compose the sky with clarification;
asterisks, apostrophes
and ellipses . . .
Drenched with poetry,the silt
of their languageslips silently
in rhythm and rhyme
The impulses, pulse within
the covers of their book
and the desire
for vertical integration
becomes co-existent
with narrative frames
The experience entices fingers
with new poems (in a minimalist form)
and quickens even
the movement of time
Deborah Russell, © 2005
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