The Poet's Stages of Labor (ars poetica)
(previously published in a broadside by Marymark Press)

From needles of unthreaded knots
(a scissored sentence in mid-air motion)
From sandless deserts of windblown words
(a salty sea of sadness)
From this tangled tongue of untamed tangents
I turn unplowed fields of fragment
into fertile ground.

                           Cindy Hochman