quote Jack Kimball, www.blog.pantaloonspot.com: "War is unjust when there is only one state to wage it." when Jack lands on such phrases, which are such gifts, it feels like poetry could be a town
in Vermont
telling us
of a lake
and a river
and tidal memory over
some rebuke but
beyond a
beautiful
flick of light
not grandstanding
and who needs
local poetry
anyway
when poetry
gets beyond the person
and the ambitions
(point blank
on all those
eager "young"
working towards the
same thing...

well I don't mean to go on
but poetry biz is dead
but poetry lives on
despite us

thanking Jack for
those flickers