No Strut; No Stuff

via Daily Prompt: Strut

Strut is never/neither

my settled social game

nor ruse.

 

Strut is in the bristle

of the eye, the ear, the fan

of the peacock’s

blown abuse.

 

No.

No …

I don’t know strut …

I don’t know strut

until I draw

and then …

it is no flaw

but ease of use,

the old confidence of flow,

that little bit of con with quill, with pen …

a feathered airborne con of thought

once pen-knife cut

and carved

at calamus.

 

Calamitous

my drawing now

if non-aero engineered;

it cannot find its lift,

won’t fly

without its strut.

No strut; no stuff.

 

Fillière  © 11  12  2017