*
Some writers are bricklayers..
making an outline..
assiduously adding brick after brick
Others are cataracts of inspiration
.. a whole manuscript can come from
them in a few days
Still others begin after many decades
to pen for the first time a lifetime of experience..
while poets are often necklace stringers..
their pages.. come one at a time..
their poems exist on their own..
like a river is the string..
and each new river valley
jade with spring or
gold in the fall
is a different poem