asked to compose
a blurb for some poems
I prepare to write
down reactions to
every one in the book
until there's two
full pages of notes
to condense into
a concise phrase
to serve as a bumper
sticker for this work
it falls short of what
I think it deserves
for the reader to want it
never mind everyone
may qualify to judge
my friend's poems
who secretly need
to be delivered
as an art form
expressed anew
a mewling neonate
of poetry, an ode
pushed through another
window into a clean
gallery of topical
cameras, perfecting
a ring to capture
the dynamics of the beast
SL
SLC
2/5/26
