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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.

Without Poetry

Language knows nobody
is attentive, everybody
has their own blog
and dictionary.

Once the tool of science –
to measure worlds, to heal
wounds, and list foods to avoid
before sleep,

Now, cells in our palms are
mirrors of worlds for our eyes only;
reflexion makes reflection
the relic

Of solitude, of silent rooms
once noisy with authored
worlds, and our sole
imaginations.

Dave Read

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