At The Workshop
written by: AK Drees
the instructor cautions to avoid
verbs of being:
we are not to be
nor were we in the past.
What is, is weak.
It improves the line
to leap or sing or pant or spin
not to have been;
as if we were in
perpetual flight away
from now.
AK Drees lives on a more than hundred year old farm with far too many living creatures who want to be fed prior to dawn. Her work has appeared at Autumn Sky and in the Slippery Elm Journal.
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- At The Workshop - July 20, 2018
