sun and rain ant and lion
light and dark wouldn’t dream
of taking turns being cloak and dagger
guts and flash humbled and heightened
didn’t stitch or weave a canvas
never intermingled or twined words
with threads of different color
before poetry did anyone imagine
a painting painting the artist
or that music might sit on
a stool and strum the musician?
as with most art it is by popular
opinion and subtle head nods
that any architect of phrases
knows it has created either
swan or ugly duckling
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