RIVAL TRILLS: COLLABORATIVE POETRY SERIES #10

There is beauty, and there is work. ---“Territories”, Luisa A. Igloria


RIVAL TRILLS

Of course, pulcra is its own territory:
Isn’t beauty its only excuse for being?

When created, it has its boundaries
defined as edges of petals or blades

of leaves, twigs of branches, birdsongs.
And work? Work is the homely sibling.

Pulcra et utile. Beauty and usefulness.
Where poetry works, there beauty is.

Where, pray, is the bounden territory?
Rival trills of a phantom symphony.

—Albert B. Casuga
04-18-11

Prompt: The thin forsythia at the woods’ edge is in bloom at last. Two towhees battle over territory: rival renditions of the same six-note trill.---Morning Porch, Dave Bonta,04-18-11 http://www.morningporch.com/

Collaborative Poem Prompt: Luisa A. Igloria”s “Territories,” posted in Via Negativa, 04-18-11 http://www.vianegativa.us/