Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ROAD, by LISA WILLIAMS First Line: This is what poetry is (says the road) Subject(s): Poetry & Poets | ||||||||
This is what poetry is (says the Road), a laying down of uniform pattern across a land you can't control but which you think it best to flatten. It's far from vivid. Look at the whole flamboyant forest! Look at the paths that can't be uttered by a mouth and at the scattered arcs of light more integral to this wide planet than words will ever be. Your lines? Like railroad tracks that cut the bracken, bring something through, then disappear. No one knows what speck was taken or where it moved, and no one cares. Copyright 2001 by The Modern Poetry Association. This poem appears in the April 2001 issue of Poetry Magazine. http://poetrymagazine.org | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ENVY OF OTHER PEOPLE'S POEMS by ROBERT HASS THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AS A SONG by ROBERT HASS THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED by LYN HEJINIAN OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 192 by LYN HEJINIAN LET ME TELL YOU WHAT A POEM BRINGS by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA JUNE JOURNALS 6/25/88 by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA FOLLOW ROZEWICZ by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA HAVING INTENDED TO MERELY PICK ON AN OIL COMPANY, THE POEM GOES AWRY by HICOK. BOB TWILIGHT SONG by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON |
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