What is poetry? Is it a thought fox running through your mind? Or a fruit plucked free of its rind? Some stanzas to ponder: “In poetry you can write about what you’ve faced/ but never fully erased.” Or in another dialect, but just as lyrical: “Dis poetry is designed fe rantin/Dance hall style, big mouth chanting.”
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