Twin Pillars

Is there a balance
Between poetry and prose
Anymore than a balance
between these and those

Is there a balance
Between poetry and prose
Or maybe a marriage
Where ‘heaven only knows’

If there’s a balance
Between poetry and prose
Are there rules to be broken
Where anything goes

Or is the real balance
Between poetry and prose
Truth sitting on top
  —their twin pillars below

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2014)