When I think of writing poetry
I think of Sylvia Plath
And W.B. Yeats

Of Ted Hughes
And Frida Kahlo
And Picasso…

When we were…
and then again…
and so forth…

Hummingbirds
Llamas, and more llamas
And ever more birds…

Creatures of every variety
When the sun rises on this
Vast river of life