Friday, August 13, 2010

IN A TRANSITIONAL ERA

We live in a transitional era,

fears dwarfing hopes, doubts, both.

Of child prodigy painters, middle-aged

mid-listers, distressing older novelists,

only musicians make any progress.

Poets (like me) do our damnedest:

if the planet lasts, we’ll ask: Why?


(13 AUG 10, Santa Clara CA)v1

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