DUD

DUD

I sent you
my poetry

my book
         
           of
failures

every single poem
a failure in significance
coming nowhere
near saying
what
     I set out to say

wanted
to achieve

everypoem
a dud
     by a mile, by
a hair’s breadth

thinking of your hair
all your
     hair not

too
coy here

every poem a mission
a reach

question asked
      connection begged

exquisitely
            sometimes here perhaps

where not
accomplishment entirely.