Hybridal Sonnet

Itinerant poet is redundant.
Drifter and sifter and suffragette—these
are terms that occasionally apply
to my sometime poet-hood…

I’m pulling this down to work on. I have a strange relationship with meta-work, poems that are explicitly about the act of writing (all work is a metaphor for the act of writing). My problem is that when you take out the space between the-thing-you-are-describing-as-analogous-to-writing and writing, it gets claustrophobic for me. If I figure out the solution soon I shall certainly inform you. Maybe in code.