"You know the answer and still I have to say it: Poetry has got nothing to do with..."

“You know the answer and still I have to say it:  
  
Poetry has got nothing to do with poetry. 
Poetry is how the air goes green before thunder, 
is the sound you make when you come, and 
why you live and how you bleed, and 
  
The sound you make or don’t make when you die.”

- Gwendolyn MacEwen

from “You Can Study It If You Want,”
in Afterworlds (via afroui)