Friday, April 4, 2014

4/30 Rachmaninoff

Rachmaninoff,
you aren't entirely wrong.
maybe I'll never know how to write a poem
the way your crescendos and trills collide
maybe emotion is my much too much
the thick honey which permeates
yet never escapes this landscape-
is already a poem.

my attempt: hyperbolic,
just a fingertip arrow poised at the moment
when the lithe aspen meets the tempest's force to bend
all we have is poetry

to brace against the break.

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