For the lits, in poetry

From "Tilt"

For the lits

“Use more metaphor and symbolism. . . ”

“It reads like a diary entry, not poetry.”

The experts wax and wane,

sit with their Faulkner and legacy admission

striking the cigar, locking the gate,

with cushion fingers, papery to the page,

never waking up to the burning sun

and you can tell it.