Technique: Free Verse Poetry
Focus: Experimenting with word play, metaphor, and personal point of view
I’m good
until 6:00 p.m.
puttering in creative content-
ment
playing teacher, mother, confidante
and teaching myself
new distractions
I overload my plate
in an orgy of busy-ness
mask my gluttony
with small helpings
of surface chat
…
but evening always
arises
as surely as the battery on my machine of self distraction
flickers and dies
too soon
time to sleep
or not
...bones... 