Coyote, Trickster XI

When I got into poetry,
back in college,
I wasn't much of a reader.

I wrote because I had
always been interesting
in writing poetry.

But then I got into reading it,
and then I seemed to stumble
into a whole community,
and for a while,
I completely understood
what most people mean these days
when they think of poetry.

But then a lot of that
went away.

When I graduated,
I tried to cling
to that community,
but it resisted
my best efforts.

I kept writing
but I struggled
to keep reading.

Recently,
I got back into
reading.

But I'm still waiting
for the community feel
to come back.