Ars Originem: On Poems of Literary Origin

III of III - and a prompt for you...

Nothing can fully explain a life in poems; our origins are by turns monstrous and mysterious to us. In crafting poems of literary origin, poets have a hand in shaping their literary narratives, sure, but also in practicing the very etymology of their craft, poēsis: to create. And perhaps what these poems accomplish best is to convey the richness and idi…