Thoughts After Snyder's Poem
What you should know
The poet said
To be a poet
To which I add a word:
Know who you are are not
Where your darkness starts
Words' weight in drams and scruples
What other poets do
The way the world works
How money hurts
Children's dizzy ways
Love's anagrams
The universe asleep
The space you cannot keep
The sound that needing makes
What you must not forsake
8/13-10/12/95, 10/31-11/17/95, 3/13/08
Copyright 1995, 2008 by Maurice Leiter
Posted with permission.
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