Five Points, Vol. 7 No. 3
Spring 2003From Robert Olen Butler, “Art does not come from the mind. Art comes from the place where you dream.”
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Louis Simpson
Lives of the Poets
Dickinson had a cockatoo
she called Sémiramis
and loved dearly.
Whitman was a trencherman,
his favorite dish
a mulligan stew.
Frost went for long walks,
Eliot played croquet,
Pound took fencing lessons.
There is a snapshot of Yeats
in a garden with a woman
naked to the waist and smiling.
Auden when he was old
counted the sheets of toilet paper
that a visitor used.