Honest Anger

A fragmentary poem that equates honest anger with lightning, valuing emotional force that is sudden, clean, and undisguised.

The poem exists almost entirely as assertion — honest anger is like lightning, yes it is — and the repetition with correction ('Honest anger is like / Honest anger is like lightening') reads as the poet striking the line twice until it lands. The 'Yes it is' that closes the fragment has the force of a fist on a table: no argument, no elaboration, just insistence.