A poet is someone who is astonished by everything.–Anonymous

Free verse! You may as well call sleeping in a ditch, “free architecture!” —G.K. Chesterton

It had to come. Every writer, no matter how humble, tries to write some poetry, sometime, somewhere. I haven’t written any poetry in a long time. My life is mostly prose and story now. I’m not saying that’s bad at all, but every writer should attempt some poetry. Here’s an old attempt:

Judas’ Justification

I saw him as a dream
in starless night;
yet though his words seemed clear, crystalline droplets in the air,
he was elusive, hint of light without a form, out of reach.
I followed, hoping
to pull him down
to see him make in this world
Something real.
His death was real.