Manifesto

We poets

Are lovers
So in love with love
Itself.

We applaud
When you fall in love
And become lazy

Dreaming away
on a Summer's day
In the middle of Winter

Courting fairies
Surprising gnomes
Laughing with the earth and seeing how much you can take

How much joy.

We poets by erupting
In delicious belly pleasing
Change the world

Feasting on delight
Generates quantum possibilities

Unhooking time
from its current hinge
Like pea tendrils

How disruptive!

This simple act of drinking
the honey hearted wine within

Renders useless all the grave presumptions

a moment before.

How else could you hold that,

In a way that bathes it
in moonlight?

That rejoices in its existence?

That slows time like falling
in love?

See? We sneak it in
everywhere.
That’s our

secret.

—Originally Published in Birds of Paradise Poetry Guild Issue #3