Saturday, 15 May 2021

reservoir dynamics

 reservoir dynamics


there are so many words i would NEVER use in a poem

so many clichés and so many shaped lines

couplets and permutations thereof 

so many rhymes and so many enjambments

tenses and alliterated personifications

so many lambent halcyon salad days

and all the poems that begin with i 

or she or me and

all of them going

et cetera et cetera et cetera 

such an uneconomical well to drill

that my reservoir of words has congealed

what was a flaming gusher has exploded

cloy are the tar sands of ubiquity 

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