Blueberry Picking on Jay Mountain

I make my living as an artist these days,
but once it was only poetry.
and I made no living.

I decided to make a painting to go
with each poem, that is why the title
of my art always comes to me first.

Sometimes the title is so fulfilling
that the art never gets created.
The pleasure was in the written word.

The satisfaction was in the thought
worked out and brought down
from that level where all the gods play

Where all the poets amuse themselves
spending their time touching all the poetry,
and picking all the blueberries