Portrait of the poet as the poem
An iambic pentameter of fourteen lines is a sonnet,
or in other words an argument
that finds resolve, only when the volta comes
in lines eleven or thirteen or something like
never –
if inked over by lines crossed out, as if to say
for once, my agency can slip from
fingernail to finger tip, and I –
poet or poem,
have painted too abstractly, or
in other words, too beautifully.