imagine a poem
imagine it’s called “Yevtushenko”

imagine it’s in the form of a table
imagine columns

a null column and a null row
the row at the top and null columns separating all the columns for:

names - gender - gender behaviors - languages - beliefs - disabilities - races - interests - ages - cultures - countries - locations - …

imagine as many columns as you like
imagine as many rows as you like

imagine rules next
imagine a rule being you must draw horizontal lines through the cells in all the columns

this is not the poem
what you feel looking at the lines you’ve drawn is the poem

the poem is as small as one person
the poem is as big as the world

the poem is joy
the poem is grief

imagine another poem
imagine a column of all the things you’re feeling making the first poem

imagine a column of all the things you’ve felt
imagine a column of all the things you will feel

imagine a line through what you felt with each poem you create
imagine how you would feel looking at this line

imagine
imagine

_{by Edward Covannon, Creative Commons Attribution - ^z - 2023-12-15}