Peter Manos' Ars Poetica from his new work, Myriads

 

Peter Manos' Ars Poetica from his new work, Myriads

Unwritten

 

I didn’t write these poems so much as

Discover them, becoming spokesperson

For each, as each opened into being

Requiring no pen, paper, keyboard,

Or screen in order to be recorded

 

After clouds and fog silently parted

Words gathered aloud, line by line by heart,

And managed to hold fast. It all cohered—

Scaffolded in memory’s atmosphere.