from holding tank to page

coalescing and the poem

I hold thoughts and experiences within me,

in some kind of holding tank 

I don’t quite perceive most of the time,

then I notice a coalescing collection 

that leaps out at me,

my creative impulse molds the collection

into a form that pleases the word artist within me,

I create a collection of words

to hold the fragments 

that want to be a whole,

and somehow it is.

by Henry H. Walker

April 23, ’17