feature not flaw

A line that doesn’t make sense in a poem is a feature not a flaw. It shakes the reader from the rote act of reading.

not that kind of light

 The flaw of thinking that language could ever illuminate one’s life.

open book critic

It’s okay to be a disagreeable critic as long you can convince the reader that your opinion may be flawed and you’re still open to being awed.

missteps are steps

A poem that flaunted its flaws, knowing they were necessary to the whole.

public storage space

The prose poem’s great flaw is that it’s anything and all.