Everything I Learned About Enjambment

by Gregg Rowe

Concordia University class
Summer afternoon, a breeze
floats through the air
suffocates my nostrils

Poetry and the learning
student who desires to master
the art of communication
with a fountain pen
that leaves scratch strokes
on virgin blank paper

Everything I learned about
poetry to date
has been through love affairs
and one night stands
try to capture the essence
of the evening as the
lover slips out the back door

Everything I learned about
poetry I have learned on my own:
technical terms that are discussed
I had no clue existed
I just loved the sound of the ink
as it slid silently across the paper
a river flow of thoughts
penned into eternity

And then the word is tossed
into the summer air
my mind draws a blank

@What the fuck is enjambment?@

It is the progression
of my life
that was stagnated before
returning to a university
atmosphere of intelligence

But I had called it
alcoholism