They say it's the poem
not poetry not poet.
These analysts want
like economists want
to be physicists,
they want to be like
painters and the canvas
stands up for itself
against the elements
though not against
additional paint.
Perhaps all this above
is why there is no popular gerund
for writing poems.
You've never heard
of poetizing, have you?
Neither have I.
We are here, though,
in this poem,
as it unfolds
for both of us,
and we are riding it
like a gerund,
even if
at its end
it will be written
like our lives
after the end.
Roman Ryan 