B.J. Ward Quotes

A Poem Is A Windy City, Has Broad Shoulders
and Insistent Industry,
barrels Into Your Brain, Sticking
its Steam-filled, Swarmy Head
into The Delicate, Empty Bird Cages
propped In The Rooms Of Your Imagination.
A Poem Can Be Rude, Downright Ignorant
of What You Had Been Thinking About
and Holding Onto For Too Much Of The Day.
More Than A City, A Poem Pushes Its Hemispheres
against Your Thoughts, Knocking Them Out
of The Windows Of Your Ears.
Every Good Poem Screams, 'Read Me
because You're Going To Die Someday!

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