All poems
by James Shapiro
All poems are temporarily fixed, loosely anchored you might say, and rowing out to my collection of brightly colored buoys no sooner do I haul into the fishing boat a version of a poem than it needs reworking. They’re alive, not dead, at least until their owner surrenders them for the last threshold.
James Shapiro works as both a writer and a schoolteacher in New York City. His poems and prose pieces have appeared or are appearing recently in indefinite space, The Zen Space, Schuylkill Valley Review, Crayon and Bull.