Saturday, March 15, 2014

The Great Poet’s Work

Painting by Joni Di Pirro

By Lisa Lipham Lemza
So I bought the Great Poet’s Work
Some years ago.
Dutifully read it,
And was, shall we say,
Underwhelmed.
I picked up that book last week—
Elegant and slim—
And found each line shot with electric wonder,
Mind falling off the cliffs of words:
Spinning, ecstatic, stomach dropping.
It’s not the book that’s changed.

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