Caren Krutsinger Poet Narrative

Trixie can be Terrifying

my muse Trixie turns herself inside out and upside down
wanting my full attention, but I am not always in the mood to write
This infuriates her. She becomes determined to make me pay
She can be terrifying, so I try to accommodate.

Trixie demands attention and commands respect
she is nothing like me, and yet she is me
Difficult to explain
unless you wake up like I do, hearing the last line of a poem

I ignored my muse for forty years; a self-imposed sabbatical
she was not happy
but kept quiet, reposing in the background
collecting her ideas

for the past six years we have the goal of ten poems a day
and we have met this goal, so she is relatively happy
insistent and persistent when I am ready to say uncle
she is my resilient powerhouse

my muse Trixie turns herself inside out and upside down
wanting my full attention, but I am not always in the mood to write
This infuriates her. She becomes determined to make me pay
She can be terrifying, so I try to accommodate.

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