[New-Poetry] "Word are clothing"

[James Cervantes]

Shop Talk II

Words are clothing,
though sometimes a poet
thinks of them as a large flashlight
with a battery that weighs 5 pounds,
or the small hide-in-your-hand
type with a beam you shouldn't
shine in anyone's eyes.
The former spread almost
clear across a page and include
all that the poet can legally
or aesthetically get into
that particular crop, while the
other has squeezed life
into a blue-white beam
that goes out if you release
your thumb from the switch.
But back to the clothing:
there are styles etc.

-- Jim
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~ http://www.fieralingue.it/documenti/mr_bondo.pdf
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