Initiating Energy
It happens when
we analyze a poem.
I’m at the board
and I ask,
What do you see?
And at first
the room hesitates,
looks down
at its collective feet
until one half-hand
has the half-courage
to half-lift itself up
just enough so I notice
and a quiet voice asks,
Did anyone else think it was weird that…
and then, yes, so many
ideas falling over each other- what if,
but couldn’t it, I imagined, why not,
connotation, end stop, reversal, personification, tone-
and I say prove it
and step aside to let the big idea bus through.
Then,
when it all
winds down
to a long
pause,
I say, Look at the title. Have you considered the title?
And then smile to hear the engine rev.
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