The Pole and I

A Prose Poem and Some Haiku

I began this first piece as free verse, then had to set it aside for a few weeks. When I came back to it, it was suddenly clear that, with a little alteration and some development, it would be much more effective as a prose poem… indeed, that it actually was a prose poem, just not completed or fleshed out yet.

So I made the alterations and continued to …