Portrait of Purpose

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A man spends years confusing purpose with plans, then realizes purpose was never the destination; it was the driver the whole time. The Portrait of Purpose is built from that confusion and that realization - each poem a different attempt to define a word that refuses one definition. Some poems pray it. Some poems will it, literally, in legal form. Some poems love a woman thirty years too late or twenty years too young and call that purpose anyway. Every body in here is split open to find what's inside it; every word that wasn't quite right got bent until it was.This isn't a photograph of a life - photographs lie still. This is a portrait, which means somebody had to render it brushstroke by brushstroke, mistake by mistake, until what was etched into the brain finally matched what got etched onto the page.