POET’S WORK
Grandfather
advised me:
Learn a trade
I learned
to sit at desk
and condense
No layoff
from this
condensery
—
Lorine Niedecker
N.B. Faraj, will you join me in this thread? What do you think of the Niedecker poem? I have another in a similar vein to post, or link to, by the truly amazing poet, Basil Bunting. But I will wait to see if anyone comes along here first.