"Ars Poetica" by David Roderick

[audio m4a="http://barnstormjournal.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Ars-Poetica.m4a"][/audio]Spool through white and quarters,               eighths.While all the while.                           The lure of idyllas if scotched.Cold rows.                            Fool again: ice,cut glass,              a bandaged snowmeltwarmed into.To remember,                             foul, fool.Sans serif. Vis-a-vis. Loopsand curved ribs.              Contour of denseathletic runs.                            A heard clinking. Might instead:overheard.                                          Melt.A field flooding.              Facedown in its poolagain.                            Damn it. Won’t.Farce: the spool or idea spooling.                            Farce: the white wall. David Roderick’s first book of poems, BLUE COLONIAL, won the APR/Honickman Prize. This fall, the Pitt Poetry Series published his second book, THE AMERICANS. He teaches in the MFA Writing Program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and hosts an interview series on The Rumpus called The Late Nite Poetry Show.