Introduction to Poetry - Billy Collins

[Larry Robinson]

Introduction to Poetry

 I ask them to take a poem
 and hold it up to the light
 like a color slide
 
 or press an ear against its hive.
 
 I say drop a mouse into a poem
 and watch him probe his way out,
 
 or walk inside the poem's room
 and feel the walls for a light switch.
 
 I want them to waterski
 across the surface of a poem
 waving at the author's name on the shore.
 
 But all they want to do
 is tie the poem to a chair with rope
 and torture a confession out of it.
 
 They begin beating it with a hose
 to find out what it really means.

        - Billy Collins
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