What You See Is Not What You Get

Week 33

What You See Is Not What You Get

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            1.   I Frequently refer to breakthroughs as ooze-throughs. There’s a slow

                  step-by-step process to most payoffs.

            2.   Mid-size steps, big steps and small ones all go into the 

                  arrival at a desired destination.

            3.   Often, too, even when completely desirable, the end of the destination is

                  not what was previously envisioned.

            4.   Dark and light complement each other; same as fast and

                  slow, high and low, hard and soft.

            5.   A poem appearing sluggish among others may take you

                  where you need to be as a receptor of new sights, sounds

                  or feelings.

            6.   The so-called fallow time in the project may provide for

                  re-evaluation previously rejected, and options that now

                  shine.

            7.   Walk with wide wings that sweep and gather as you cross

                  over the ground.

Steady

I, the poem,

am him.

Today, I want

to speak for him

in a sole way.

Right out, I speak

as a poem

among my many

selves, his selves.

My heart

has been hurt

when the reader says

there are some

really good poems

in this book,

meaning this self

of me—

the one among

many—

is thought

for less.

I, the sole poem,

distinct but

not glistening,

am a carrier,

mellow in spirit,

keeping the flow

until one of me

on another page

appears as

a flash.

Let’s remember

that’s your flash.

I am one of many.

I take you up.

I bring you down.

© 2012 Allan Cox, Allan Cox & Associates Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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