Write-At-First-Thought

Robert Joseph Mattingly 1957 (Brookline, Massachusetts)



A poem approaches
Another in a book,

He's a bundle of words.
Ink rushes downward through
Their letters, her title

Smacks against his while she
Looks straight into his I's
To see if they're dotted

And all his T's are crossed
With punctuation marks
In place on the paper.

Finally, a poem
Leaves a name for himself,

About this poem

Muse approaches Poet out of nowhere with a passionate hug and kiss at a club in Memphis, Tennessee Etcetera September 4th, 1988.

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Written on February 08, 2024

Submitted by robertm.06281 on February 08, 2024

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XX XXX XXX XXX XX
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 320
Words 68
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 3, 3, 3, 2

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