My Poem: Triangular Triplet: Gen

Title: Tulip
Poetic Form: Triangular Triplet (a 3 line variation on a palindrome)
Length: 18
Rating: Gen



bending stem, inclining head of tulip
sweet leaves of muddle green mint julep
camphorated tenderly pouting dew lip

or

lip, dew, pouting tenderly, camphorated
julep, mint green, muddle of leaves, sweet
tulip, of head inclining, stem, bending

Poet's Corner: Station by Sharon Olds

Station by Sharon Olds

Coming in off the dock after writing,
I approached the house,
and saw your long grandee face
in the light of a lamp with a parchment shade
the color of flame.

An elegant hand on your beard. Your tapered
eyes found me on the lawn. You looked
as the lord looks down from a narrow window
and you are descended from lords. Calmly, with no
hint of shyness you examined me,
the wife who runs out on the dock to write
as soon as one child is in bed,
leaving the other to you.

Your long
mouth, flexible as an archer’s bow,
did not curve. We spent a long moment
in the truth of our situation, the poems
heavy as poached game hanging from my hands.