'Creating an appropriate past'

 

Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?” – John Leonard

 

Born in Great Britain in July of 1965, Leonard was raised and educated there but now makes his home in Australia.  The author of 5 poetry collections, his most recent work is the 2024 novel Shakespeare in Virginia.  For Saturday’s Poem, from his book Braided Lands, here is:

 

You Don't Write a Poem

You don't write a poem-

What you do is discover

That there is a world,

Quite similar to our own,

Except that it contains

This one extra poem.

 

And what you recognise

Is that this one poem

Makes all the difference

© John Leonard