What Good Poems Are For

by Tom Wayman

What Good Poems Are For }
by Tom Wayman

To sit on a shelf in the cabin across the lake
where the young man and the young woman
have come to live—there are only a few books
in this dwelling, and one of them
is this book of poems.

                 To be like plants
on a sunlit windowsill
of a city apartment—all the hours of care
that go into them, the tending and …