New poem: "When Writing Poetry"

 When Writing Poetry

 

When writing poetry, I never pour the large

into the small; the small will never contain

the large. When writing poetry, I always pour

the small into the large, which will always contain

the small. That’s my perspective on the puzzling life

of Donald J. Trump, which was inspired by the literary

genius of America’s preeminent man of letters,

John Hoyer Updike, whose only duty was to describe

reality as it had come to him and give the mundane

its beautiful due. In the smallest details of daily life,

Updike captured the big picture of the human condition,

and his beautiful stories will be read as long as there

is literature. My poems may one day slip into obscurity,

but my muse informs me that President Donald J. Trump

is not only going to save America’s democracy from

the rot in the system, as he was called by providence

to do, but to also change the course of history;

and I trust the magical art of poetry writing,

which does the thinking for me.

 

Composed in Tiny Beaches,

Georgian Bay, Southcentral, Ontario

Sunday, January 5, 2025