accidental poetry by Emma Driver1
I don’t
consider myself at all
poetically
agile.
These days,
whatever I have
goes in the service of
songwriting —
and I write
too many work emails
that dampen the joy
of crackling wordery.
- This uncut gem was found in an email to Catherin J Pascal Dunk, titled, faceted and polished for punctuation, and line and stanza breaks by the same. Words and photo by Emma Driver. ↩︎
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Emma, Emma…you crackle regardless
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Don’t fight it!
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Ha, that’s only the crackle of a daggy old ’70s LP that has not been looked after in the proper way
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love to see you at full force if these are your scrappy fragments
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you have poetry in your soul Emma D
To paraphrase that terrible Village People song, “You can’t stop the poetry …”
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we need poets now more than ever, to grow the future!
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I fear you made the Village People song even worserer Jess…
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