EVERYTHING ONE POEM AT A TIME                                                  

This poem

used to be longer,

used to contain

all the words,

the marching band,

a sleeping tiger,

but

a page is like

a block of marble

on the verge of change,

each poem sculpted

from it

to present

Everythingness

in its Relativeness

one poem,

one word,

one sleeping

tiger

at a time.         

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Lisa Segal, a poet/writer/artist, has lived in Los Angeles for more than thirty years. "THE TRAPPED BIRD" was first published in her book, METAMORPHOSIS:  Who is the Maker? An Artist’s Statement (published by Bombshelter Press (http://www.bombshelterpress.com>), which includes her poetry, prose, and photographs of her sculptures. She won the 2017 Los Angeles Poet Society Poetry Month Contest. She teaches poetry and writing as part of the Los Angeles Poets & Writers Collective and is a member of StudioEleven, an artist-run cooperative. Her poems appear, or are forthcoming, in Cultural Weekly, Serving House Journal, The Mas Tequila Review, Spectrum, ONTHEBUS, Poeticdiversity, FRE&D and elsewhere.