Crisis-Poem

[rowens]

When a writer's dead you can read everything they wrote as a whole. As one poem. But when their ghosts haunt you, you feel a need to engage with them. I think you can engage with tradition, or try to start over from scratch and just hope you're not writing something that's already been said better a hundred times. I like to have books and pens and notebooks and maps and pictures and scrolls and note cards all around me to give the impression that I'm actually doing some form of work.