THE NOVELLA
is a muscular fella,
not an idea like a story
but a world itself whose glory
is in concision, impact and wit:
unpadded, unexpanded, unfit
for summer reading
or academing
--it’s single redeeming
grace: no added couth
obscures its truth.
The usual take is either that
it’s a novel, unfinished, still flat
or a story volumized
in size. Dead wrong.
The novella is the core
of all, not one word
less --or more.
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