“Write a poem that obliquely explains why you are a poet and not some other kind of artist.” (https://www.napowrimo.net/day-three-11/)
If I were to name what I am
I would say I’m a punnerist
Far more than a poet.
Puns, like poems, play
With language. The distance
Between them closer than
Some imagine. Poems, like puns,
Come at the world simultaneously
Sideways and direct. Face on,
Askance. There’s joy in playing
With meaning, with space, with
Tone, with expectations. There’s
Far less distance between poems
And puns and painting and
Art is how we see the world
Differently
John the Librarian 