1 minute read

Statement of Poetics by Perry Levitch

24

You must try to drag the welcome mat through the dog door by your teeth. It will not fit, it will bend and bristle and you must catch that noise tightly inside a Tupperware for keeps.

Advertisement

Learn to do this and you learn to bring your lovers to you, and back to you.

Poetry is nothing like very very few things. Be a beast, be a baby, be a woman (or quit that game). No time to do anything but bite down.

STATEMENT OF POETICS

Perry Levitch

This article is from: