aesthetic cage

Don’t forget that one’s aesthetic can be one’s cage.

drop trap

Books are just cages that get dropped over writing.

attica, attica...

Sometimes you work on a poem for so long you feel you’re staring out of a cage.

empty cage

The poem was a finely constructed cage, but the door was unclasped and the bird within had flown.

caged beasts

The words pace like beasts in their cage of form.

jailbreak

Ruled notebook: Frustrated, I turn it on its side and begin to write. The words hanging on the bars of the cage, biding their time for a jailbreak.