Considerations
Some say they find it in the mind,
A reason why they should go on.
Others declare that they can find
The same in travel, art well done.
Still others seek in sex or love
A reciprocity, relief.
And few, far fewer daily, give
Themselves to God, a holy life.
But poetry must change and make
The world seem new in each design.
It asks much labour, much heartbreak,
Yet it can conquer in a line.-Elizabeth Jennings
excerpt from "Revving Charon's Outboard Engine"
...The change is upon us. Do not
resist. Insist. Ride the letters
into newer never and. Prepare
to land, touch ground.
No sponge can follow us here
with false equations from word to
thing. Walk, do not run,
the ninja metaphor is just another
hired killer, cold in winter
& hungry throughout the day...-Pierre Joris
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