Individual Valentine

My interest in poetry
is restricted almost entirely
to the experience
of the individual poet
the individual truth
of significant and
insignificant beings
yet to be united within
the stream of existence
which poetry encloses
and opposes and which
we who were born of
Elohim and humans barely
children themselves
we mythic poets and
lame queer faltering
ones without whom
you all would hardly have
made it even this far
left to your own devices
don’t look now but
we’re still the secret
agents of the word
the old mysteries bestowed
still available but now
only individually received
individually deposed.