It’s not just words, it’s words as art.
The shape and sound and texture of language:
not meaning alone.
And that’s where people miss the boat.
“Express yourself” they say...
but poems are sculpture and music and vision as well:
structure and vacuum,
the whole AND its parts—
what’s missing, what’s implied:
a workout for the mind
strengthening the muscle of invention,
bulking up on vocabulary,
improving on creation.
Perhaps a way
of being god.
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