Poem: Minimalist Enough

Minimalist Enough

My

pen

writes

words

that

sometimes

mean

something

to

me

and/

or

others

and

sometimes

(maybe

now?)

they

mean

absolutely

nothing.

Is that 

minimalist enough?

February 2025

About This Poem

I wrote this poem when I was trying different forms. The first stanza is made up of single words while the second is made up of two words (obviously) and the form was telling me it was minimalist. So, being confronted with a bit of writer's block with that form, I wrote this. The photo is from an artwork at the Museum of Glass in Corning, New York. It looks like a minimalist drawing, but since it is actually made of glass it probably is not so minimalist...