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Taken from here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n

I ask them to take a poem
\n and hold it up to the light
\n like a color slide<\/p>\n

or press an ear against its hive.<\/p>\n

I say drop a mouse into a poem
\n and watch him probe his way out,<\/p>\n

or walk inside the poem’s room
\n and feel the walls for a light switch.<\/p>\n

I want them to waterski
\n across the surface of a poem
\n waving at the author’s name on the shore.<\/p>\n

But all they want to do
\n is tie the poem to a chair with rope
\n and torture a confession out of it.<\/p>\n

They begin beating it with a hose
\n to find out what it really means. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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