Lawrence Hall, HSG
Old and Unselected Poems
Why do publishers entitle
volumes of verse
New and Selected Poems?
Is it the editors’ lack of
imagination?
Or is it some sort of
secular rubric
An inky “We’ve always done
it that way?”
When you finish writing a
poem it is new
It didn’t exist before
you, and now it does
And someone who reads your
poem has selected it
It wasn’t selected until
someone picked it up
Every poem is forever new
and selected
And to the joy of your
friends, so are you
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