‘The Line’ Featured at Masticadores USA

Many thanks once again to editor Gabriela for featuring my poem. Here’s a sneak preview:

Pay out the line
cast it cautiously
(not over-cautiously) and
dip it deep
into the wellspring
of your wild imagination:
come up singing...

Continue reading at MasticadoresUSA! I wrote this two years ago, but this is the first time it has been published. I think my style has changed in the time since I wrote it, but the message has not. To me, poetry is all about working with lines, and ‘the line’ is the underlying thread which unites the work as a whole. I hope you enjoy this poem about poetry and the poetic process!

Ingrid