Thank you for your note.
You say
my poems give you hiccups.
I am glad to hear it.
All poetry should leave the reader
changed in some way.
I seek a range of outcomes,
from at one extreme
mild sneezing fits
to at the other
complete physical and mental disintegration.
In all things, of course,
there is a measure.
I would not expect
a haiku about a goldfish
for instance
to provoke convulsions,
in a normally healthy reader.
At the moment
I an exploring the middle ground
with some success.
A school class
working on my ‘Three Purple Sonnets’
has been quarantined for six weeks,
and members of a workshop
discussing my ‘Elegy for Genghis Khan’
suffered such a variety
of gastric disturbances
that the group has been permanently disbanded.
I am attaching
a few recent pieces
and would be most grateful
for your feedback.