From In The Level of Gods
published by Down With Grundy, Publisher
(now Banana-Cue Books, Publisher)

Beat Cafe Craft

 

What motivates a poet to write,
to poeticize on something—singingly,
essayingly, weirdly . . . might be the page

itself, the paper's pale camaraderie
joyous of the luxuriance whiteness'
self emits, away from the brown & green

of trees. Otherwise, it could be and
nothing else but . . . the rough-hewn
tumbleweeds, comrades in community,

the poet's cafe following you around—
expecting a retort to somebody's charm,
a sort of challenge that feeds the art of warmth.

 

-- 20 April, 2000

 

 

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