The Poet’s Mirror I Spirits assail under cover of dark to suborn the poet’s ink how close are prayer and poetizing wrestling the ineffable the half-finished poem is a blind man feeling his way on a dark night or a lover groping with passionate hands toward his consort’s bed how the autonomous words blow where they list the bell of the Sorbonne, the guttered candle the frozen inkpot warn against the Promethean stroke which re-orders the world The Poet’s Mirror II The poet indites his hope of immortality in evanescent tracery of loneliness, love and loss; concupiscence and copulation synecdoche for life itself. Lloyd Jacobs is a former surgeon and university president, now writing daily. His poetry has been published in The Wallace Stevens Journal and The Main Street Rag as well as by other small magazines. Comments are closed.
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