What is found here . . .
There are several dozen poetry books on my shelves,
Many with sticky notes, turned-down pages, or
citations jotted in the endpapers.
So I thought it would be useful
to gather - over time - a certain number
of those poems in one place
where they can be easily found
and read together.
Poets and publishers: don’t sue me—
this is homage, and good publicity besides.
It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there
—from “Asphodel, That Greeny Flower” by William Carlos Williams