Creation

The creation eludes me.
I don't know if it will
be a man or a monster.
I've studied a lifetime,
yet I stand, terrified, before it.
The spark of life,
I fear, is waning.
When will the lightning
of artistry strike?
When can I write a poem
that is a living man?
Isn't the man myself?
Are not creator
And creation one?
The answer is nothing more
than another question.

Gary Crawford is the author of two books of poetry, Poems of the Divided Self and In Shadow Lands, and the short story collection Gothic Fevers. I have published works of literary scholarship and criticism, such as Ramsey Campbell, J. Sheridan Le Fanu: A Bio-Bibliography, and Robert Aickman: An Introduction. He is also the founder and editor of Gothic Press (http://www.gothicpress.com/.)

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