Workshop Triolet

Today was an unusual day as I went to a poetry workshop held by the Southern Humanities Review:

http://southernhumanitiesreview.blogspot.com/2014/02/discovering-shr-is-this-weekend.html

It was at St. Dunston's church which was 

different than what I expected on the inside.  

It reminded me of a cabin at a mountain resort. 

It was a good program and it made me think.  I heard lots of good poetry.  Here is one of the results.

The triolet equation

I think in equations

is a power that cannot be gaged

and that often we shun.

I think in equations

of solutions to nations.

Math was taught as my language, so

I think in equations,

a power that cannot be gaged.

-Rob Jackson

Expansion

Expansion

Spring water

guided by

extruded metal 

solidified and expanded,

cracking the seams

In the molded plastic

so that the sequenced valve

would never close.

The ungoverned flow

moves past the frozen,

holding open

the prison door

through the tubing

to exit and fly and layer,

onto leaves and fibers

bending under the weight

of curving beauty

freed from the laws of man, 

and allowed to follow

the instincts of nature.

Robert L. Jackson