A Poetry Archive Volume 1: By Alphabet and Beach - 1998 - 2003

He's like the bird in a cage

in a pit

in a tunnel,

and he sings just to celebrate air.

Something . . .Everything . . .Nothing . . .

What do you write when you are learning to be a poet? What do you not write? Is there a breath of air taken that doesn't contain a poem buried within it?

lord this is earth

I am alone too far from

water-blue we look

from where you gaze on us . . .

A Poetry Archive visits Frank Prem's early days as a poet. Volume 1 is the first of two collections written between 199...