One-Sentence Poems – No Talent For Certainty

Pavane

I observed this while waiting to check into a hotel.

South Carolina Winter

Personification - because, like carpenters, poets need tools.

Illustration

I wanted to be part of an illustration when I grew up, figuring, since I was going to be a man, and men are all two-dimensional, it was not beyond the realm of possibility.

The Process is Not The Poem

I have an idea – a feeling, a picture – I want to convey; but this particular reader is more interested in where my idea came from than in what it actually is.

The taint of viral discontent, as filtered through a prison: it is the way our days are spent, and much grief has arisen from all the halves of halves of truth we spread upon our blankets — it is no wonder much of youth is now spent being anxious —