INNER CONFLAGRATION

In the middle of my creative war,
a cease-fire,
#543rd, I believe,
in more than 15 years
of mental block to mental block
poetic warfare.

Time to regroup the vocabulary,
resharpen my Ticonderoga,
& guard against sneak attacks
from prosaic enemy forces.

(1984)
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