FROM TWO BOOKS
by Ted Richer
When she writes in her preface:
All this existed.
My poems are a diary.
My poetry is a poetry of proper names.
Write, write more!
Fix every moment, every gesture, every sigh!
She should write:
All this existed IN MY LIFE.
My poems are a diary OF MY LIFE.
My poetry is a poetry of proper names IN MY LIFE.
Write, write more OF MY LIFE!
Fix every moment, every gesture, every sigh IN A POEM!
So.
When Ted writes in his preface:
All this existed IN MY LIFE.
My poems are a diary OF MY LIFE.
My poetry is a poetry of proper names IN MY LIFE.
Write, write more OF MY LIFE!
Fix every moment, every gesture, every sigh IN A POEM!
Ted should write:
“All this existed.”
“My poems are a diary.”
“My poetry is a poetry of proper names.”
“Write, write more!”
“Fix every moment, every gesture, every sigh!”
Like Marina Tsvetaeva.
In her 1913 collection:
From Two Books.
Copyright © 2017 by Ted Richer.
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