If you’d like to hear a brief commentary and how the pacing of these words flows in my body, enjoy the audio included above.
I will not make you a narrative
or condition you into chapters
with characters to figure out
coherent plot lines to gather
.
I will not make you a manuscript
or soften you into story
tame wild into tidy
cultivate anonymity
.
Maybe I’ll make you poems
shape you into sounds
honor all the both-ands
in language deep & round
.
Maybe I’ll make you mysteries
in lines of two or three
or maybe I’ll let you
be the one to shape me
Can you guess which of these is the first draft? :)
This is so incredibly beautiful