Words are not symbols, words are not signs toward hither and yon.
We don’t draw blocks from the box of words to assemble abstractions in the Coney Island of the Mind.
Words are swords that apportion the slices of a life.
Dave Read
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.
Words are not symbols, words are not signs toward hither and yon.
We don’t draw blocks from the box of words to assemble abstractions in the Coney Island of the Mind.
Words are swords that apportion the slices of a life.
Dave Read