Poetry

I always liked this piece from 'those poems'. There was a simple honesty to it, an intimacy of the moment in which it was constructed. I have read some of her works. Not bad, but I think she is, as she discerned, a better artist than a poet. Just as the Amomancer is a better poet than an artist.

Poetry

you have the muse.
oh, sometimes you doubt it,
but when the coffee house
patrons stop stirring their
overpriced
decaf
to catch the turn
of a phrase you constructed
and brought to me like a
child
showing off a
handmade kite,
you must know
better. I have
learned from you
and your work
stands on
its own pentameters.


William F. DeVault. all rights reserved.