Wind Pipe

Jim LaVilla-Havelin

January 20, 2022

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Wind 

Pipe

with words

tightening

in his throat

clutching at

the air, he 

composes

the great 

loss of breath

poem

a poem so

constricted

so dense

and closed

to wordy

happen

stance

that it 

becomes

almost imp-

ossible to

to get a

word in

edge wise

Jim LaVilla-Havelin is the author of five books of poetry. His new chapbook, TALES FROM THE BREAKAWAY REPUBLIC, will be published by Moonstone Press in Philadelphia in 2022. He is the Poetry Editor for the San Antonio Express-News and the Coordinator for National Poetry Month in San Antonio.