April 11, 2010
 
Continuing an April tradition, Huntington News Network is celebrating April -- National Poetry Month -- With a Poem a Day from Knopf
 

 
Special to Huntingtonnews.net
 
Stan Rice, who died in 2002, was a visionary painter and a poet with a gift for miniatures—he often noticed the natural eloquence of the smallest things that speak to us.
 
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The Fragment of Statue
 
How is it
The marble
Fragment
Looks whole.
 
Full of its power
The lips
And chin of
The feminine
Stone.
 
Not that the whole
Would not have
Power but
 
How does the fragment
Flower
At all.