Bonnie Sweet

Bonnie Sweet

               On the first day, light,

through a colonnade, a man,

     upside-down, naked,

suspended from an arch by one leg

WHAT IS ULTRA FAST 4

     "You have to let students make

their own discoveries from time

          to time."

Pencils in this drawing:

          She was drawing pencils.

She forgot something you meant,

like 'entity,' so learn their mistakes,

in context, during a propriate

time,

          a misused word might

spire reflection.

     "But the system has no patience

          for patience."

Has she built that portunity

into structure 

                    or content like a fish

out of water who ends?

               Rectangular pool filled 

with floating

     candles, man at child-eye 

level, larks, fire ants

WHAT IS SWEET 5

Where there aren't gulls: there 

               is gull.

Where there aren't flowers:

          there, flower.

Where trees? There, tree.

Where seas? There, sea.

Where valleys? There, valley.

     "Who need thought, time, get 

left behind…"

                               girl

     flour

                    three

          seize

                         vale

                                    magister

     Try not to be 

                              the drawing:

instead, the pencil.

          "…unable to revise 

                    thoughts 

after discourse."

               Five coins of tin 

     and four staves

of bronze and a boy 

stepping

                                        off a cliff

WHAT IS ARTISAN 7

Where there are no poems, 

     there arises poetry.

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