A Poem A Day from the George Hail Library ~ Selected by Maria Horvath: Reply to the Question: "How Can You Become a Poet?"

A Poem A Day from the George Hail Library ~ Selected by Maria Horvath: Reply to the Question: "How Can You Become a Poet?"
Excerpt:
....By late August
crumple it in your hand
so that you smell its end-of-summer sadness

chew its woody stem

listen to its autumn rattle

watch it as it atomizes in the November air

then in winter
when there is no leaf left

invent one

~ Eve Merriam (1916-1992), American poet and playwright