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Ars poetica

The meteoric rise in the academic sanctioning of poets since the 1970s has made "ars poetica" one of the things never far from my mind.

Use of Verse

While young, I made a poem
and found a way to roam
the mind’s furrows and folds,

to ride neurons, and slide
along synapses as if they were
icy hillside sidewalks in a little

river city beside a great lake,
and look again where yesterday
was work play sleep, while
tomorrow looms six feet deep.

Dave Read

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