Today’s Red Wheelbarrow:

I’ve been thinking about “how-to” and “do it yourself” stuff lately, and how often I refer to them, and I was wondering how many of y’all have written a poem in the form of a how to? Perhaps you could start today. Any how to will do (in a pinch). Even “how to write a poem.” Especially if you have no idea how to write a poem. That is exactly the kind of how to I love. In which the person writing discovers something unexpected in the process. So get started. Discover. Go.

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Which poem, in your life, has made the most difference? The difference can be as you like, of course. True difference. Difference between night and day. Hot and cold. Cat and dog. Up and down. Ill and well. Fingers and toes. As you wish. I will follow with A… perhaps tomorrow.