poems come

30 days. 30 poems. all about poems and words. how they come, and go, and live their lives through and with and between people.

but not just human people. other kinds of people, too. rock and water and plant and air and animal people.

and not just people. gaia, too.

poems that tell stories. poems that dance. poems that sing. poems that change color.

these words also say what poems are not: violent. arrogant. mean. sound bites.

they describe the mystery. they talk about laughing. they're insolent. they create stuff.

sometimes they're impatient. sometimes they wait. they work for justice, enact gun laws, end ableism and saneism.

these poems are political acts.

phil smith, who put this book together, says he didn't write these poems. they wrote themselves.