Locomotive of Mangled Parts

<p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>LOCOMOTIVE OF MANGLED PARTS </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>is a multi-level exploration of and through the craft of poetry. It begins by reflecting on the nature of that human exercise of futility and triumph called language the mystery of poetry itself and the symbiosis between poet and reader that closes the circuit that poetry requires for its electricity to flow. This </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>ars poetica </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>lays down tracks that</span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> LOCOMOTIVE </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>moves down on a wider journey to many physical spiritual and emotional destinations: ghost cities endangered aspen forests the Covid pandemic religious faith and doubt the blights of war and of racism aging caring for a dying parent love and daily living.</span></p>