How to write a Verbatim poem. A year ago last September. A YEAR AGO LAST SEPTEMBER TWO ladies with a child. Were travelling on the Hudson River cars,. One of whom offered a seat to a middle aged gentleman. With light whiskers or goatee. Slightly gray, who kindly pointed out to her. And said he had a number of them on his place. And made himself otherwise agreeable;. And when she was leaving him. Gave her a parting embrace, which she has never.

We speak with one voice. It was either ascend by metaphors or go under a plain life. Sink, immerse, suffocate and drown in gyring commonalities. Or so she presumed back then, persuaded as she floated,. Drifted and slided on tropes, and her own buoying youth. On a neap tide she rose and with the spring thaw. The flood waters gushed and rivulets carved. There she found herself,.