New Poetry by Mark Goad

Credimus

Every poem –

don’t be fooled –

is trying to convert you

to its own small god.

Every poet

is selling her own

version of beauty or

truth or pretended absence

of either or both. There

are no simple statements here

and innocence – what? – the most

beautiful dream of all.

Poetry breeds credulity, that’s the fact of it, and

poets are the truest believers.

- Mark Goad 2012

Mark's most recent publications include Assisi and analogpress.