Tuesday, January 15, 2019

To Make

Photo by Radu Anghel, Romania.
   

In the frozen solitude

of creative search

for the true voice

                    of feeling,


My field could be any field

where dark accidents lead

                    to the mind's

                    sufficient grace,


And the ordinary, divided,

                    unsimple heart


Becomes the poem

                    on the page.







—quoting Keats, Delmore Schwartz, and Frank Bidart.