What My Poems Are About
Poems, the way words sit
on a page lines short not the same
as words in a sentence mine
are people poems every single one of them
neighbors I knew and didn't people who
walk over or I go over there Ida Gordon
lived next door when I was a child and she
was one of my very first poems my father
talking about Ida Gordon she had binoculars
not for birds but for people my father said
I sneeze and Ida says gesundheit and I went
upstairs and wrote it down.