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Connecting With The Audience
Oil on Canvas
20" x 24 " |
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On reading a poet who writes to you
There are sequences of words
Which cannot be known until they are written
Sequences and cadences which are found, not taught
These are the words which carry their own lamps
And which cannot be placed on paper by accident
They demand to be written, or spoken, or sung
And they are so bright in the ink that all about them goes dark
They are so bright at the moment they are read
That we will never know if we are reading aloud
And whether our voice is our own or the one
That shouted out to the poet
We are in the same brain, the same pen, the same air
We are blinded by the words in the same second
Now we must worry about the poet
For what must be known to find us out
Now the question must be asked by both of us:
Who is it can lead us when only those in the paralyzing light
Will know where we are?
Joel Barr
Poem appeared in Poet Speak |
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