03.25.20
ANATOMICAL SPRING
if I say this poem is a letter
like magic then this letter is a poem
like this endless empty field is a stage
and this state is not a field, like this letter-poem
messes up the magic and glamour of the grammar
and all we’re left with is the next thing we see
ancient Roman poets used to write 11-syllable lines
recently I heard of poems that are like Mars Bars
let’s write a poem that’s shaped like spring!
or say things that look like circles, did you ever
eat lichen to stave off starvation? or dreamed you
were a bird?
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(this is the letter)