Monday, 11 July 2016

Original Recipe

Writing sounds like a space
that no word has ever entered; 

the beginnings of some-
thing personal in your most
indifferent hour. 

Turn your attention 
to this growing familiarity, 

rediscover a heap of half-broken
things where movement has room.

Nobody can find the original 
recipe for perfection.




Sources:

Letters To A Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
The Bungalows by John Ashbery
Chinese Whispers by John Ashbery 

Note: First published in issue forty-two of 'Otoliths'.  

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