A Paradise of Poets
1
He takes a book down from his shelf & scribbles across a
page of text: I am the final one. This means the world will
end when he does.
2
In the Inferno, Dante conceives a Paradise of Poets & calls
it Limbo.
Foolishly he thinks his place is elsewhere.
3
Now the time has come to write a poem about a Paradise of Poets.
Copyright Credit: Jerome Rothenberg, "A Paradise of Poets" from Seedings and Other Poems. Copyright © 1996 by Jerome Rothenberg. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation.
Source: Seedings and Other Poems (New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1996)