Finding Names For: Softism Poem by Douglas Scotney

A projectile lover,
reading a bio about a lyricist,
comes across a prose lyricism—
‘what the does that mean? ’—

checks the biographer’s credentials—
‘wouldn’t you know it?
a poet
subverting love of bombs’—

comes across many more,

thinks of Capote’s aim
to amalgamate all forms,

thinks ‘what name? ’—

Emollitionism
(L. mollis, soft, from E. emollient,
Gr. malagma, L. amalgama
and E. amalgamate)
Softism.