“The purpose of poetry is to return that which is familiar to its original strangeness.”

Charles Simic

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ON READING ANOTHER POET FOR THE FIRST TIME

Few of us have the luxury
of existing in a world denuded
of concepts and signifiers —
so I take that first plunge
into your phenomenology,
your lifeworld, the bleary
blaze of your sensorium via
the gateway of your neuroses.
Did you set out to share or unburden
and, in perceiving a difference
between the two, am I saying
too much about myself?

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