Here’s another poem using the derangement exercise from Wingbeats II. The source poem is the latter portion of “The Pink Locust” by William Carlos Williams. Unfortunately, I could not find an online version of the poem to link to.
Reblogged from the Lexington Poetry Month blog.
Face up
Place me – my denial will rest
among those who but rose
a poet’s galaxy.
I know not if I am it. In what may be
persistence, I flower like so and reward
greater offers.
No life would be ridiculous: which poem
in slighting slights itself? The poet made well
if it equals the rose.
A rose is an answer as might be betrayed
in would-be poems not inclined
to do much.
What says the world facing what the poet in me
will become? Myself, I think what
could I wish I were.
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