Rules

One must master the rules before breaking them -- it is like that, especially with poetry: One learns to logically manage the spaces~ what isn't said, the pauses and non verbal connective feels -- The novice often says too much or is so obliquely obscure that he or she makes senseless attachment with others -- Fine fabric of poetry closer the frayed edges of language, loose threads of thought we light, to keep from unraveling. What lasting value, if any at all, rises in the smoke, is sustained by memory of the lyrical flash.