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A WORD ON VERBS

A WORD ON VERBS

A WORD ON VERBS

It’s often those
        who talk a streak

on world affairs
         and love and peace

who seem to love
          and peace the least.

© 2009, Wendy Videlock
From: Poetry, Vol. 193, No. 4, January
Publisher: Poetry, Chicago

Wendy Videlock

Wendy Videlock

(United States of America, 1961)

Wendy Videlock’s poems seem to grow from the same plot as myths, fables and morals. Her slender poems approach the reader with a conversational tone and precise language, pulling her short lines taut and lending them an aphoristic air. Asked about the brevity of her verse, she suggests that “the more we carry on about a subject, the more likely we are to lose its essence”.

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A WORD ON VERBS

It’s often those
        who talk a streak

on world affairs
         and love and peace

who seem to love
          and peace the least.

From: Poetry, Vol. 193, No. 4, January

A WORD ON VERBS

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