I love poetry, read it a lot, but make no claim to being able to write it.
The idea that language can be recombined to create new forms, new things, is of course very old in poetry.
Toronto is hard to capture in a few strokes.
There's some evidence that before events of mass trauma, even unpredictable ones, people begin to feel higher anxiety, often expressed in terms specific to the event.
I'm not even sure if empathy is an act, it could be a disposition.
Many of the concepts we once thought belonged to speculation or science fiction are now part of our understood reality.