A Poet's Ways

A poet may pounce on the page

giving space to a world

that lives only because of her.

 

A poet may approach the page stealthily

on little cat feet

before instructing the pen in its duties for the day.

 

A poet may stutter onto the page,

stopping, restarting,

emitting silent and invisible

stammers of "er" and "um".

 

A poet may disown her page,

crumpling the words that came out wrong

and consigning them to the dustbin of her history.

 

A poet may, occasionally,

embrace what has appeared on the page

as if by magic,

her pen a pipeline from her heart.

 

 

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