At first I wrote
in brief mutterings
and the halting service of a wing

unaccustomed
to the flight of words

Then I found my footing
in the very depths of myself
in the courage of the verses

where one reaps
raptures
from the body of the writing

Next I began
to haunt verbs
and to reinvent metaphors

the syntax of passion
the icons of time
the doubts, the dilemmas

In writing poems