Poetry of the Obvious

“You want poetry, I’ll give you poetry,” says my uncle, who, when alive, drank vodka and welded steam radiators. This morning he is on my left shoulder and waving an obscure farming implement–a farrier’s lightning rod–I don’t know what the hell it is. So I ask him. The answer is obvious. Projective verse. 

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Author: stevekuusisto

Poet, Essayist, Blogger, Journalist, Memoirist, Disability Rights Advocate, Public Speaker, Professor, Syracuse University

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