A Moment of Clarity

Believe me when I tell you this: it is incredibly difficult to write a poem of brevity AND beauty.

But here I give you Don Wentworth, a Pittsburgh poet who writes Haiku-like poems that are both stunning... and short. I heard him read recently, he called them "poems of a single breath." Poems located both here and nowhere, he writes lines that have incredibly immediacy... moments of clarity in a single breath.

His chap book, Past All Traps, can be purchased on Amazon.

So you know exactly what I'm talking about, here is my favorite:

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mistake after mistake
after mistake, adding up
to just the right thing.

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