The Young Talented Poet

The young talented poet, exhilarated that words can signify solid matter,writes of birds, canopies, ancient cities, men and women in love.

Shrewd as a child, he shows these poems to his family and acquaintances.He scrutinizes their breathing, eager for any subtle response,

hoping that what he has written will possess them, the way we are possessedby the feeling of discovery, the connection of two ideas, an unfinished dream.

“Yes it is good, yes we love it,” they all say, as if the poet’s treeswere really trees, the rivers really rivers, the sunlight really sunlight.