its so easy

its so easy

               poetry is being, not doing

                                    —e.  e. cummings

when I hear a bell

its so far off I don’t know

whether to box or

pray look at my hands

no gloves no grass stains no ring

to catch no merry

go round just write three

lines at a time five seven

five each syllable

counts one by one at

seventeen start again and

so on until you

lose track and then

your poem is gone

                              —Donnell Hunter

                                        26 January 2012