Poem taken from:

Whatever Sends The Music Into Time: New & Selected Poems by Leah Fritz

Poem of the Week

Tuesday, May 08, 2012

THE WOODS ARE FULL OF POETS AND EVERY TAXI-DRIVER HAS A NOVEL by Fritz, Leah

If it were only so

(tygers in all the forests

a song to every meter

the whittling of words

outside the general store)

if only it were so!

poets are radioactive, they breathe

fire to ignite your eyes; even

in a proletarian age

they die elite

of their own burning truths.

(along the highway river and traffic

throb the driver’s tale and

in the woods there is

an ominous ticking)