[Critique Group 2] my submission for critique session on April 25

[Alice Massa]

Hello, Group Two writer friends--My submission is a 22-line poem, one of 
the poems for National Poetry Month.  Talk with you all soon!




*Word Portraits*

poem by Alice Jane-Marie Massa

In library galleries,

word portraits--

framed in leather,

hardback, or paper--

are on geometric metal and wooden shelves,

not on graceful easels.

Word portraits

are lacquered onto pages,

bound together tightly:

with a multiple fan feature,

movement glides from left to write,

then, a turn from right to left.

Ah-ha! The Literary Butterfly

floats under a right-hand page

and lifts the page to the left.

Two new word portraits appear.

In this fictional or nonfictional fashion,

I continue through the word portraits

of each chaptered room of this gallery.

With butterfly grace,

reading powerfully uplifts

the most artful,

imaginative, enriching

flight of the mind.

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Take care!  Best wishes for a Happy Easter and Happy Passover!

Alice and Willow


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