Ars Poetica
by
Identity Theory poetry editor Charles H. Johnson
"The poet is a little
God."
- Vicente Huidobro
It starts slowly.
Like a drop of rain kissing a tin roof
the way a thrown stone skips across
the surface of a pond.
Full of thought and purpose.
A single letter
written on a still, blank page.
One, then another, then another
until a word is formed. A phrase.
A stanza flooding down from above.
Ideas splashing together,
slipping over eaves in beaded columns
of meaning swallowed by a thirsty earth
that later punctuates these run-on sentences
with a single blossom here and there.
Beauty that makes sense
only when you step outside the house.
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