2025. január 23., csütörtök

Kevin Kantor: AFTER HE TELLS ME THAT POEMS ARE FOR HOPELESS ROMANTICS, I TELL HIM

poets                are not hopeless anythings
if we were        we would not write poems
let alone entertain the notion that anyone cared

to listen

listen to these words
                            words
                                    words

they are a clumsy sort of close-up magic
a trick deck that wants to let you in
on the secret, try on all of its suits

watch as i pull the past out of my hat by its ears
alive again and now in need of feeding

my words are thick with fur
gentle beasts born of a hunger
you will regret to mistake for hopelessness

Nincsenek megjegyzések:

Megjegyzés küldése