Poetry Like the Woman

I have found that
Poetry
like the woman
on the
 verge
like the shedding
of
anguished
 tears
like the angry child
with a
secret
like the unsettled churning
in the
womb

like the surrendering face
turned
aside
is often much ado about
something
else

(c) 1998, 1999 William Edward Isles