The Nature of Editing

Two grown men
arguing about “porcelain.”

Not the china itself,
you understand,

which we know
virtually nothing about

but the word “porcelain.”
This haiku, here,

the one about
about the old tea cup?

It has real potential,
but, I still think it needs

the word “porcelain”

and red roses
by the handle

slowly turning pink
and fading into it,

the porcelain.

–April 18, 2017