Picture This... (I Think You Can!) Poem by Karl Stuart Kline

This poem is going to be published in the next issue of Poemata (the quarterly magazine of the Canadian Poetry Society) and will not appear here until after that publication.

For those of you who receive that publication, part of what you have to look forward to is a very intense, adrenaline driven warning to battered women everywhere and it will be presented in two different versions.

The first is as it was originally written - a spontaneous outburst that was driven by circumstances that were brought to my attention on the Internet.

The second is the only rewrite that I've done since the original poem was written and the only reason for the rewrite is that it was singularly suited to a particular poetic form and it should be very interesting to see both how similar they are, but simultaneously very different!

The message is very clear in both versions and I look forward to seing how people react to them, separately and together!

Karl Stuart Kline

12/09/08 - the poems are now on this site - see 'Abusing Women'