titles are even more difficult for me to compose.
i could spend ten minutes typing and
deleting and typing and
deleting and typing and
deleting
a good title for a poem that isn't that good to begin with
do i use a line from the poem for the title?
do i tell the story of the poem with the title?
do i help people understand the poem with the title?

i write poems with feeling,
and i write them before i name them,
so by the time i get to writing
the title,
i've used up all the emotion
in the poem's words


       and now there is none left
for the title