Sourced from an ineffable place,
poetry helps embodied souls
keep pace
with the dearly departed.
An effing displacement of use,
though,
are verse made for dollars, not sense;
they upset the faint-hearted.
Dave Read
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.