Great Regulars: One of my favourites is the short line,

often used in the "skinny poem", as a friend of mine calls it--a poem which falls down the page in a narrow rivulet. You can see great examples of it in William Carlos Williams's This is Just to Say, or his famous poem, The Great Figure.

What's amazing about this poem is how Williams can take something that happens laterally--watching a firetruck move through a city street--and transform it into a vertical poetic event.

from John Freeman: The Guardian: theblogbooks: Skinny poetry's greater breadth

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