A political act
Making poetry in public is a political act.
:- Doug.

To make poetry is to make imagination
To make stumble stones out of speaking out to a powerful person
To imagine what a moral life might be
To imagine grasping another’s beating heart from out their breast
To spark your imagining into 2 or 3 others
:- Doug.
Poetry’s our playful exploring, to see what we can see, what larger we can become, what larger service we can be. How do we outlast ourselves?
:- Doug.
Poetry teaches
What have you to learn?
Observation?
Patience?
Play?
Exploration?
What?
:- Doug.