Bill Howell
Bill Howell has five poetry collections, including Porcupine Archery (Insomniac Press, 2009) and Ghost Test Flights (Rubicon Press, 2008). He has recent work in ARC, Antigonish Review, Echolocation, Fiddlehead, Grain, Nashwaak Review, New York Quarterly, nthposition, Toronto Quarterly and The White Collar Book (Black Moss Press, in press).
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Bill Howell
Exactly
November 2011
The more refined your concept is,
the more primitive you have to be.”
—Wynton Marsalis
How sharp are your tools when you need them?
Say, quietly entrancing the fence entrance with
what passes for a common gate. Nicking it open,
peeling it back, paring it down to what’s barely there.
Quietly again, with nothing in it but the time taken
to get it…