Fundamental Incompatibilities

Ways of speaking, ways of writing
in business in the professions in academics in poetry in journalism in spirituality

how why should language bridge the gaps

I had to admit it was impossible to write a poem about the view from the nearby office window and how it made me feel.

first sparse red fuzz on the tree branches
yellow forsythia fronds
gloom

I went to Paris last month. I didn’t write about it because I couldn’t find the lyricism.

Paris, on Jennifer Bartlett’s blog “after a winter of wordless birds”

I wanted to write about poetics for National poetry month. But I’m not sure I can find the lyricism.

Where is the lyricism?