THE SEER
or HOW TO WRITE
for David Meltzer
1937-2016
In the beginning was breath
sounding in the throat.
Shells of words seethed,
breaking on meaning’s shore.
If at first you can’t write a line,
send for the juggler.
Read the menu and drool.
Something will come to you.
The moon turns to wax,
glowering over North Beach.
When I was a poet
I juggled glowing worlds.
Death, I lived to cheat.
In the beginning was a beat.
Jeffrey Cyphers Wright is a publisher, critic, eco-activist, and artist, but is best known as a poet. Spuyten Duyvil recently published his 12th book Triple Crown, Sonnets. Wright produces literary events in conjunction with his publication Live Mag!.
