unraveling, unreveling, unrevealing

unraveling, unreveling, unrevealing

 

 

i am endlessly editing

my poems and my life

spilling misspellings

3 am writhing, writing

scribbling, scrawling

punctuation be damned

fooling the spell checker 

with a constant barrage 

of license

not the driver kind

but the poetic kind

 

readers beware

my life has seen 75

years of correction

connection

collection

of hurried verse

that took years

to come forward

but only minutes to come foreword

 

the mess is mine

the clutter

makes me mutter

obscenities to my cat

as i beat the keys

as senseless

as i am.

 

 

erin-cilberto

1/9/25

Reviews

[Curly Grace]

A witty, self-aware glimpse into a poet’s lifelong dance with disorder. The wordplay, the late‑night scribbling, the refusal to bow to rules, all of it feels earned and endearing. The closing lines land with a wonderfully human mix of humor and exhaustion. A charming ode to creative chaos.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Thank you for the review, Curly.
j.