About This Poetry


How it should be, or not be?
That was your question.

In answer: my metaphor, or not -
A bottle of scotch, dusted off
Tabled waiting to pour
A fathomless glen soared
Taken in, sip by sip
Or short. Upended. Like that

Followed by the clack -

A claw-gripped echo

An embedding.





(ms 2006)