Poetry

It begins with a few

words, a blinking cursor

or the initial drops of ink

settling on a cool, new page,

a willingness to share —

to bleed or scream,

to sob or sing,

to bite or sting,

to be raw or wrap

it in form, the trappings

of a sonnet or villanelle,

a Haiku, or something

esoteric like an ekphrasis

or aubade, but for 

me, most days, poetry

is soul-speak, my heart

open and insistent

my words are as important

as breathing.

—C.L. Fisher, July 2021

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