Poetics Cont.

The structure is that the second line can settle the line before it. Should it do this though, does it have to? No, I don't think so, but it should be able to be done or required when wanted or more likely when it happens naturally.

I read much of the night

And go south in winter.*

Should a poem be made of observation, realization…leaning to unfold and refold newspaper, spin a classroom globe lets go here.

Let us go then, you & I, when the evening is spread out against the sky.*


Chain link fence running parallel to the 2 lane road between a 7-11 and Mazatlan.


My eyes are broken. My eyes have failed.

* -T.S Eliot

Simon Wolf

Poet and teaching-artist in Seattle, WA.

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