Friday Night Poetry

I came across a curious site the other day called Quickmuse. They pit well-known poets against each other and give them fifteen minutes to write a poem. There's a feature that allows the reader to see how the poem was written. Fascinating. And well presented.

Here's tonight's poem for Cold Flute.


Poem


The rose fades
and is renewed again
by its seed, naturally
but where

save in the poem
shall it go
to suffer no diminuation
of its spendor


—William Carlos Williams