Writing a Good Poem

Poetry is not saying that you love your wife

simply by saying it - I mean, it would not

have impact on anyone but her, would it?

If I write a poem, however, on how her

apparition in a crowded street defeated

me today as much as when I first spotted

her on a sunny lawn some decades ago,

it would make a difference - a poem about

recognizing her face; familiar when I first

saw it, and always new since then.