—for Russell Lux1
| I picked those words as if mad, suddenly seeing myself |
resignedly, somewhat obsessed, I live as in a distant world. |
1Explaining an original experimental form he called “Four-by-Twos,” Russell Lux explains that “this idea is loosely based on Tang poetry and mathematical matrices. I’m trying to write four lines and two separate columns. Column one descends in word count from 4 to 1. Column two ascends from 1 to 4. If both stanzas can stand alone as individual thoughts, that is ideal.”
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