Thanks to Chestnut Review’s debut
I’ve been writing and submitting
for publication maybe a decade
plus or minus
during which time
manual process has d/ evolved from
printing paper then sending stuff
off in envelopes after
stamps licked to now
simply hitting, Send on computer
which waaay simpler procedure
encourages
maaassive increases
in verse traffic sorta like college
applications flooding Admissions
Departments –which
stretched simile
doesn’t hold a candle to metaphors
about artistic stubbornness in face
of accompanying
proportionately greater
odds of rejection that sadly include
this one about bad chestnut blight
wiping out four
billion (billion!) trees in
North America during early years of
last century but doesn’t kill all stumps.
So post those forests
ensuing cut down,
in many places these stumps still boost
young shoots over and over, and when
some get old enough
disease hits → they die but
generate another not far from deciduous
roots: given bills/ jobs real-life intrusions,
better images for Stubborn
we haven’t yet seen.
– Gerard Sarnat