Making a Poem with Kindling
Making a poem with kindling
is easy.
Gather allusions and
Pine needles.
Of shed birch bark and bony driftwood
Use the former.
Metaphors are useful if they can
Be snapped with one hand.
We don't want sawdust or any
Other artificial ingredients.
Leave the coal in the ground.
Keep the peat in the bog.
When you feel the time is right
And there is a gibbous moon,
And you have assembled a party
Of three or more,
Away from trees and open fields,
Perhaps away from cornfields,
Even away from cities and snowy owls.
In a circle of rocks,
Scatter matches and flints atop your kindling,
take five paces back
And wait for rain.
-DR
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