November 05, 2008

REJECTED

There is a party on the block.
Everyone I know is there.
In the shadows I watch and glare
at the whole poetic flock
who won't deign to even mock
my crafty lines, my stellar poems.
(I've been barred from better homes.)
I shout my name, protest and knock.

—Patricia Callan

Posted by dwaber at November 5, 2008 12:33 PM