Poetry

Rita Dove quote

It’s easy to write bloated wordy pieces. What is more difficult is to toss the words in the air and wait for the wind to blow away the chaff.

Writing poetry is an exercise in distillation, in specificity.

To write a haiku requires even more precision:

springtime for poets

dormant seeds spout in warm dung

new genus — species

[from Almanac: The Four Seasons by JL Huffman]