--John WienersWhat is poetry? an imagein the mirror;reflection from a broadsidepinned to the wall,penned by a friend,from where old feelingsold meanings arise;relief from pain; the diligence of work.Mysterious words upon a page in adolescence;listening to poets read. What is poetry?Breath, competence, successor simply Eros.“Four sides to every thing.”The increase in electricity causes lights to flow.Is it only light, or heat,words ordered in a row.Men or gods. I’ll never knowor try to knowmore than the doing,the flowingrain upon the roof. That one hears,and reveresinside, away from the coldwithin the housewhere the heatreminds one of what it is to be likeout in the coldrushing over the fieldmad,Intelligence or emotion? language.
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