When a poem speaks by itself,it has a spark
and can be considered part of a divine conversation.
Sometimes the poem weaves like a basket around two loaves of yellow bread.
Break off a piece of this April with its raisin nipples, it says.
And chew them slowly under your pillow. You belong in bed with me.
On the other hand,when a poem speaks in the voice of a celebrity
it is called television or a movie. There is nothing to see,
say Robert De Niro,though his poem bleeds all along the edges
like a puddle crudely outlined with yellow tape
at the crime scene of spring.
It is an old poem, he adds.
And besides,I was very young when I made it.