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Recipes for poetry:
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Stir words with both hands,
mix into synaptic colors,
paint them on walls
again and again
until the room
screams in ecstasy.
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Cook words in test tubes
over the burner
that is your heart,
then spread on toast
like marmalade
and feed the hungry.
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Wrestle with words,
squeeze them,
break them into pieces,
pin them to the floor
of your solar plexus
and in the end
always let them win.
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(c) 2004, 2017 Betty Hayes Albright
(Formerly titled “Mentor”)
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