How to Read a Poem / a poem by Greg Baysans

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How to Read a Poem

for Conrad

In architecture you should not

see the nails. In a painting

if there's a nail, you should.

Fiction and prose are architecture.

Poetry is made of nails only

-- and railroad spikes and arrows.

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Greg Baysans, Oct. 6, 2003

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