The Six Star Review

he warns against

the six-star review

there’s danger in too much praise

it invites indifference

and the mockery

of many, but

what if you are Shakespeare

the worthy

when the laudatory

and the amazed

say of themselves

“why do I even bother …”

the stranger who says

of you

we dare not meet

though he sits somewhere

his thumb in a book

staring into the darkness

where the sixth star

blazes from the page

mine.