disheveled as the painter in his studio,
scattered notebooks open like inchoate canvases,
old idioms mingle with dust by the sculptor’s plinth –
no secretary awaits poems to align, the work is done alone,
unsigned.
Order should be imposed on my poems, but isn't likely to be until I turn to carpentry, or painting, to carry me through the day. The display here is latest first.
disheveled as the painter in his studio,
scattered notebooks open like inchoate canvases,
old idioms mingle with dust by the sculptor’s plinth –
no secretary awaits poems to align, the work is done alone,
unsigned.