I run all over town
Without a notebook
Practicing
How to hold
A hundred poems
In my head

I pick favorites
And sometimes
Have to forget one
To remember another

The trouble is
I get a full head
Halfway through
As I’m still out and about
And seeing and smelling
And so poems
Keep pouring in

Which is when
I have to run
As fast as I can
Repeating every poem
Silently in my head
And looking down
Until I can get home
And start writing
To make some space