’Tis a Puzzlement
/For poetry submissions, both the process and responses are often, as a king might have sung, A Puzzlement.
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Each jigsaw puzzle is unique;
its image and the cut of every piece
will fit just one way—neo-Greek,
completing it, a search for Jason’s fleece.
Although another piece may fit,
unless the image blends without a glitch,
if left there, like an eye with grit,
it leaves you with an irritating itch.
And so, submissions I submit
have perfect shapes, wherever they belong,
but far too often just don’t fit—
the editors prefer I sang a different song.
Yet all those bumps and knobs and tabs
of puzzling pieces not retained for long
ensure my writing’s up for grabs—
“not right for this” is not condemned as wrong.
By Ken Gosse
From: United States
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