The Alchemy of Advice. James B. Nicola.

The Alchemy of Advice

 For Rhina E

 That poem that you have to write will make
 you write it, you told us, eventually.
 Before it even is, it makes us ache
 inside? Is that the way it gets to be,
 like other fruits of creativity?
 As seeds spawn trees, so, for the simple sake
 of what is not, one day, inscrutably,
 my skin should sweat, my bones feel gnawed or quake,
 and, once the acorn's cracked, keep me awake
 night after night until there's poetry
 where there was none? Convinced that I should take
 your gracious words of wisdom seriously,
 I have not written anything in years,
 nor been much bothered. Till now, it appears. 
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