Show him every dawn & read to him endlessly.

Prose, narratives, etcetera, can carry healing. Poetry does it more intensely.

And as if reporting some felony to the police they let you know you were not John Donne.

You could become internationally famous - you're Gemini, and according to antique authority have a literary talent, which of course your letters prove.

Do as you like with me. I'm your parcel. I have only our address on me. Open me, or readdress me.

The Bush administration doesn't particularly like public participation. It makes them look bad.

I think it was Milosz, the Polish poet, who when he lay in a doorway and watched the bullets lifting the cobbles out of the street beside him realised that most poetry is not equipped for life in a world where people actually die. But some is.