I like it, & it seems to be you & your poetry in many ways, so could work at the beginning. I also likeBill’s suggestion as a possibility.
Doug
> On Nov 27, 2019, at 12:47 AM, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> *I've been working on a Selected Poems and I can across this. Fiddled a
> little and wondered if it may by a good poem to put up the front? *
>
> *ARS POETICA*
>
>
>
> My heart is still beating –
>
> it jumped a beat when
>
> my first cry
>
> startled the surgeon.
>
> Now I’m still trying
>
> to translate it –
>
> sound before music,
>
> beat before language.
>
> I’ll wake in the morning,
>
> in the tail spin of a dream
>
> – and prepare breakfast:
>
> grind coffee beans,
>
> toast bread, whip
>
> eggs into a scramble –
>
> whistling kettle
>
> grinding bean grinder
>
> hiss of gas when it
>
> first flares – all will be
>
> in any poem I write today:
>
> sound before music,
>
> beat before language.
>
>
> Andrew
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Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
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Swept snow, Li Po,
by dawn’s 40-watt moon
to the road that hies to office
away from home.
Lorine Niedecker
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