Cerebration

POETIC POSSIBILITY: REX COX

Rex Cox is a Southerner, whose original urge to write verse came from singers and musicians, and not poets. His writing is mainly influenced by Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, the short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne, O Henry, John Keats, the music of Hank Williams Sr., the Beatles, and Bob Dylan. Red Cox's work has been previously published in various magazines.

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Fragmentation and multiplication-

It's not really nothing more
Than a series of symbols
In isolation-

Regardless of what is said
By those
Who have simply taught
The triumph of the imagination.

It involves
A lot more than that,
Or watch me
Pull a rabbit out of my hat-

Especially considering-

Those who have long,
Or quite suddenly-

Grasped the completely poetic possibility
Of knowing something's there-

Even though
At the exact same moment,
They also know
It's something that they cannot see:

And therein lies the key.

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