Our appreciation of the power of poetry
would be better served if poetry was taught
in wood working shop where tools are valued
and things are built and taken home, than in
English class where things are briefly thought
about, then left behind.
Poems are constructed painstakingly word by word,
and often not in logical order.
At times the blueprint blows away
before a nail is driven.
Sometimes the roof goes on before the foundation is laid
and the windows are placed before the walls are erected.