Creativity is as important as literacy.
Ken Robinson
Lower case i
Somewhere in the middle of a word, i speak,
a diminutive letter, the only one with the tiniest circle
above it, a miniature darkened sun.
In the previous three lines, i appeared twelve times.
i can’t stand alone without criticism.
Both arrogant and learned folk
declare i am too lower-case to support verbs
that indicate action. Run, magnify, fly,
create, destroy, interrogate, pierce.
All i ask in this poem is one moment’s notice.
Because—possible does not exist without me.
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