Three poets
rot down a river bed
their body decomposing
except their head
still composing poetry
and recite being dead
where poems still flow
I’ve heard them read
*one was caught
by the sun beam
flickering ripples of light*
*another fought
by a splashing bream
kicking up a fight*
*the third flowed down
the rapid stream
where water foams white*
I, one day went fishing
and caught myself a fish
down the river swimming
quoting Tennyson
Dickinson and Finch
I set it free
because poetry is freeing
Not every line in the end
is a hook
three dead poets can testify
down by the brook
May 3, 2022
May 3, 2022 at 10:59 PM UTC
Three poets
rot down a river bed
their body decomposing
except their head
still composing poetry
and recite being dead
where poems still flow
I’ve heard them read
*one was caught
by the sun beam
flickering ripples of light*
*another fought
by a splashing bream
kicking up a fight*
*the third flowed down
the rapid stream
where water foams white*
I, one day went fishing
and caught myself a fish
down the river swimming
quoting Tennyson
Dickinson and Finch
I set it free
because poetry is freeing
Not every line in the end
is a hook
three dead poets can testify
down by the brook
