Slush Pile

In some respects I like this, even though
the workmanship’s not great. Who’d rhyme ‘today’
with ‘day’? This one’s arcane: what does it say?
Two down now; just two hundred more to go.
Call that a poem? Prose! And this one’s so
Poetic. Why must people disobey
the basic rules of syntax? No. No way,
and No, and No, and No, and No, and No,

and......Oh. Here’s something special: see it shine.
It coruscates: a lamp of burnished gold
revealing vistas formerly unseen.
I sense the presence of a noble soul
who dares to go where others have not been.
Ah, I recall it now: it’s one of mine!

David Anthony