Decouple the orange syringe
to witness the deconstruction
of the mind’s wet bar:
Poets wince in syncopation,
fishermen hold flowers,
girls on skates take orders,
gulls scour sand dollars.
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.