#339 (Merrill number)

I have done some reading
of poems
and found
the most common word
to begin a poem with
is
Apostolic.

APOSTOLIC birds, bees, trees.
APOSTOLIC women in the shape of flowers.
APOSTOLIC sun and moon and stars.
APOSTOLIC longing.
APOSTOLIC lust for solitude.
APOSTOLIC Delaware
APOSTOLIC I hold my pencil in my
left hand
while I
write
with
my
right.