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From: msimpsonmls at comcast.net <msimpsonmls>
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 21:51:41 +0000
INTRODUCTION TO POETRY
by Billy Collins
I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide
or press an ear against its hive. I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out,
or walk inside the poem's room and feel the walls for a light switch.
I want them to waterski across the surface of a poem waving at the author's name on the shore.
But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with a rope and torture a confession out of it.
They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means.
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 21:51:41 +0000
INTRODUCTION TO POETRY
by Billy Collins
I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide
or press an ear against its hive. I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out,
or walk inside the poem's room and feel the walls for a light switch.
I want them to waterski across the surface of a poem waving at the author's name on the shore.
But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with a rope and torture a confession out of it.
They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means.
-- Martha Simpson, Head of Children's Services Stratford Library Association 2203 Main Street Stratford, CT 06615Received on Fri 04 Apr 2008 04:51:41 PM CDT
