The easiest way to ruin a poem
is to read it like a poem
with stilted voice and stately oration
designed to show the poet’s construction
– poetry, as read by “poets”
who learned in English class that
“poetry is the highest form of language.”<\/p>\n
I do not agree.<\/p>\n
Poetry is distilled emotion,
concentrated essence of the darlings a novelist must murder,
packaged up with that punch that took Emily Dickinsons’ head off.<\/p>\n
Poems should be read
as if by Robert Frost’s neighbor,
with sinewy hands moving rocks through the darkness,
springing forth to hurl them through our defensive walls:
the poet as savage.<\/p>\n
Poetry should be many things:
inspiring, depressing,
comforting, enlightening,
homespun, heartwrenching.
It should never be safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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