When a poem speaks by itself，it has a spark
and can be considered part of a pine conversation.
Sometimes the poem weaves like a basket around two loaves of yellow bread.
Break off a piece of this April with its raisin1 nipples， it says.
And chew them slowly under your pillow. You belong in bed with me.
On the other hand，when a poem speaks in the voice of a celebrity2
it is called television or a movie. There is nothing to see，
say Robert De Niro，though his poem bleeds all along the edges
like a puddle3 crudely outlined with yellow tape
at the crime scene of spring.
It is an old poem， he adds.
And besides，I was very young when I made it.
