Feeling a need to quantify things, I looked at my poetic output so far for the month of May. Skipping over prose and translations, there were eight poems. Their average length was 3.375 lines. Half of them were only two lines, and only one had more than four lines.
In addition to shortness, my poems are becoming more aphoristic and epigrammatic (no, I don't know how to say that in Udugi). I am, in fact, beginning to think of them as "dichos" (sayings).
Something has changed, but I'm not sure what. My poems are usually based on things that come to me, often in the middle of the night (I keep a notebook beside the bed). Sometimes they are inspired by my photography. The sources haven't changed, so I'm not yet able to explain the current, minimalist trend. Maybe someday I will be. In the meantime, I'll just enjoy it.
Thank you for being the loyal readers that you are.
Photo: Fergus McCarthy.
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