Poems / September 8, 2026

Ars Poetica in Questions

Leah Umansky

Do you know you can invent the dead and that a
poem can be infused into anything? What do you
know about intention? What’s natural, and how
can you be in tune with the planet? Tell me about
public doting? Am I doing it now? I love poetry,
but will it help the world? What is more interesting
than a search for something? I think there’s nothing
better than a good cry—Do you agree? Did you know
that the moon is in Cancer, so you should feel everything?
I think it would be hard to feel everything, but maybe
there are no sad questions—(is THAT a sad question?)
A student told me writing a good poem is putting your
heart into a poem, and caring for it, and is that the
answer to life as we know it, or what? OR WHAT!?

Leah Umansky

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