METAPOETICS VI/VI
by Will de Kypia

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I was working on the proof of one
of my poems all the morning
and took out a comma.

In the afternoon
I put it back again.
__—Attributed to Oscar Wilde

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The Eternal Alchemist

To create a poem I do not carve words in
stone, scrawl them on scraps of paper, or
type them on a laptop's qwerty keyboard.

Instead I gather thoughts, dreams,
and fears. Collect emotions, fantasies,
and passions. Hopes and prevarications.

I refine, combine, and distill these
elements to produce a mixture which I
transmute into a volatile golden flux.

This flux has no fixed or final form.

The poem will forever remain
a work in progress, an endeavor
rather than an achievement.

My aim is not to garner praise
for the maker, to win acclaim for his
work, or even to finish the poem.

My sole goal is to compose one single perfect line.