How I Forgot to Write Poetry

I don’t know

what words mean

too tired to write poems.

 

You work!

Work is easy,

hardly matters.

 

Don’t remember words

noticing

length of lines.

 

Notice shapes in fire,

cannot smell smoke

genetic disposition

e-n-e in the ear.

 

Danish: slowgna,

maybe Swedish

“ta-shaka-de-seka.”

English: sandspurs

in my mouth.