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Poetry On The Listserve
Oct 31, 2022
The email read, “but how is this a poem?”
referring to my love child, the weekly
poetry post on our neighborhood
listserve.
“It has no real imagery, no metaphors, just
prose broken up into clauses” — all of this
after sending him the link to What Is
Poetry.
He was right of course, and I paused to
look outside and watch the winter sky
peel off its blue jeans and put on salmon
pajamas
I replied “I suppose a poem is anything
the author and just one reader agree upon”
Gary D. Grossman
The Knot, Fall 2022
