Flowing Downstream Without Levees Or Windbreaks

some poems ask to be naked they have no use at all for punctuation not even for an en dash an em dash nor hyphen they play with a flowing grammar that must be read like water or paddled through on a leaky canoe the poet can then hide behind these unchained words while demanding to be truly heard while of course all the suggested literary pauses and in-breaths can be just a matter of spacing it is quite a scrabble game one played with disjointed symbols on blank tiles a stylistic approach that can if done right be thought of as avant garde or pointlessly regressive but we all like a nude a form without garb and baggage and perhaps some of us wish wish we could walk on water sometimes