Free Verse

Free verse is when

You’re at ease with something

You mean with your whole heart.

Free verse is the divine wag

Of a thought—

Filling oneself,

Filling what’s there.

Free verse is the waver

Of strictness;

The river in the lake;

The merry brook

In the iron;

And the iron in the ever-so-going, ever so easy, smoke—

Or haze, maybe.