A Pocketful of Poesy was and is again a Poem-a-Day(-on-Average) Blog! For 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and now for 2017 and going forward, you may expect to see 365 poems every year, 366 for leap years.

but aren't they all random?

Friday, January 31, 2020

peer review

Ordinarily,
I'm not the slightest pinch
impressed by show-off
bull
shit
prose machismo displays, but God

this

was a masterfully-written passage,
wasn't it?
And it makes me pissed
at the involuntary multi-notch
ascension I can't stop
your climb
in my mind's relative
rankings of writers'
authorial-voice virtuosity,
in prose cannon heft
and length, accuracy
and heavy, explosive
load,
versus mine.

I won't say where you stand
at the moment, but
I'm a little nervous.

Which is fine.

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