Why dress a sow in silk and brand it “final” draft?
Why not—
aye the deadline’s in five minutes
draft—or the publish or pillory draft
or why can’t I catch a bligh draft or
the cow-pie tenure bye-bye draft
And why do true poets shoulder the manky blanky?
Why not—
the mouldy snoggers a dragging muddy
poetry above moss and mirror licked
with snot and a bleating against paper
This isn’t prying, but when did
Understood and Is get divorced?
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Shari J. Crane is a physician and author from Coronado Island. She writes poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, and will be a contributing writer for the 2015 A Room of Her Own writer’s retreat. She has 14 publications ranging from Coronado Lifestyle Magazine to Academic Radiology and Gastroenterology, and forthcoming publication in The Beechwood Review.
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