Sorry, I Don’t Have A Poem Today

— JoEllen Moldoff —

I don’t even have
one syllable of a poem.

But I can write air,
for its blues and wind

and water
for its sounds.

Unlike the poem
I don’t have today

a no-sound, no-color,
no-idea poem.

Sorry, but I must resign myself
to poemlessness,

unlike mountains, clouds, rivers, rain,
plants and animals who never go poemless

and never have to apologize.

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