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National Poetry Month

by Elaine Equi

When a poem speaks by itself，it has a spark

and can be considered part of a divine conversation.

Sometimes the poem weaves like a basket around two loaves of yellow bread.

"Break off a piece of this April with its raisin 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 celebrity

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 puddle 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."

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