Friday, 6 July 2018

Poetry Friday: “Pray That the Creek Don’t Dry Up”

Here is a poem about making a poem. The first stanza, a single sentence, stretches out through cosmic imagery: “light sift[ing] down,” “erasable darkness seep[ing] up,” “the crack to the radiant world closing in on itself.” The diction here is high, poetic. Then suddenly the next stanza plunks us down to earth with “One way […]

from
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/goodletters/2018/07/poetry-friday-pray-that-the-creek-dont-dry-up/

No comments:

Post a Comment