Re: FLUXLIST: Poetry Submission

[Roger Stevens]

maybe it's not chance
maybe it's just random
and anyway, I like the role the brain plays

the same with sounds
the same with art


go and look at a field
listen to the world clanking by

but as soon as you make any decision to intervene...

so is it all about setting up procedures
and then seeing what happens?

this is a rather gentle gardening poem



Splice of Life
(Roger Stevens)

        root very eaSily at this
   a classic examPle you may
          late for dahLia cuttings
      of storage untIl early April
   freely draining Compost in which
   in horticultural tErms, we do
         Which is grOund up shingle
      plants made From these late-cut
      hope that earLy frosts won't
themselves to splItting. Take cuttings
  similar but dwarFer and less
           if you missEd propagating them


from The Guardian Weekend
Splice of Life by Christopher Lloyd


how far the distance
from a zen paintstroke

to the rules for mesostic poems?


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