Tuesday 15 July 2014

POETS LETTERS



all 
the 
good 
old 
school 
poets
wrote letters

i read about it in forwards
and
saw big hardbacks 
of 
collected 
correspondences

from 
mexico and salt marsh 
from
forbidden territories and the tree house
they
knew
each 
others
appetites - shared their missions
ideas 
tempers
beds
and
lives - filing eyes-only reports from private wastelands
and
barking
moods 
from 
their 
beards

the electric age 
has made correspondence easier
but
reduced
our souls 
to 
shouting soundbites

so to good poets out there - apologies
for
my
scant sharing
of ideas
mission
and
temper
but
my
mission
is
a small one and cloudy
and
my
empathy strained





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