Truth, Justice and Poetry

To be specific, there are practically thousands of

the aforementioned abiding in perpetual near riot

of wild behavior, indiscriminate coloring, and only

the Good Lord Himself can say what diverse

soliciting

of promiscuous cross fertilization

These few lines only hint at this poem's marvels. While I might wish that the bulk of Directed by Desire were as good, I remain grateful to have discovered this poem, however much dross interfered en route. Jordan's roses represent the true, the spontaneous, the power of spirit overrunning dead, bleak, official truisms. But the poem itself mocks phony professionalism by exhibiting, with true professionalism, the power of poetic craft.

Darryl Lorenzo Wellington is a poet and critic in Charleston, S.C.