a found poem
All sorts of things may be written
In perfectly adequate prose
Editorials, history, philosophy
Theology
Even lasting novels
But there is no such thing
As a perfectly adequate
Poem
Because a poem into which
Some strange
And surprising excellence
Has not entered
A poem that is not
In some explicable way
Beyond the will
Of the poet
Is not a poem
It comes so infrequently
It remains beyond our will
From the perfectly adequate prose piece In Praise of Rareness in the December 2006 issue of Poetry.
Saturday, December 09, 2006
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