Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
Leonard Cohen

always...i mean i always thought of poetry as something i wrote or was or did or read but rarely something tangible, a verb, something that happened, never was anything 'poetic', rarely was anything any one thing, any one moment, movement in time poetic...

but as i spend saturday afternoon dylan seeping out of speakers and into the kitchen, kneading dough and spreading cinnamon, the smell of fresh baked cookies and re-heated chilli, the puppies running around my feet making puppy feet noises on the floor and puppy chasing noises in the air, and the waves crashed and the house was warm and toasty and new and me and alone i cooked and baked and prepared for what? for it for being there for me...

and one split second when i glanced out the beach bay window and saw some sort of buoy float up and smash into the rocks, then back out again, then smash up again, and thinking hoping that the poor little thing would make it's florescent belly to the shore, i thought for a split second,

this is poetry.