Into The Universe

At the Poetry Salon last night some of us read poems with Halloween theme.  It was also Ezra Pound’s birthday.  Al Averbach recited a short poem by Pound.  Then Steve Mackin read John Keats, whose birthday was today.  For poets, we look out into the universe to find these masters.  They are our guiding lights.  A visual poem came to me and this is what I “saw”:

* keats         *          *          *          *joyce  *          *

     *       *    stein  *         *        *       *  *  basho   **

*          *   *     *      *  *  duncan  *  *       parker        *   *

crane **      *              *       *             * li po*  ****

  *mcclure       *  *cummings   *        Apollinaire

*          *          *          *    browning      *  *                 *

*     ***        *      *  **   smart*        *pound   *  *  *

*        **     *eliot* *          *     ***    *  *yeats **   *

*          *  *      *          *          **        *  ***   **   *    *

h    a    n    d    h o    l    d    i   n    g    h    a    n    d