<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=461108" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To Mary Ruefle, poet</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">and since you're an<br>American Poet or<br>a poet writing in English<br>or however you might put this<br>in a cv which you'll surely<br>never need being unique<br>and therefore beyond all <br>job descriptions except poet</div><div style="margin:10px 0">since you're, well, those things or<br>that thing<br>you may never have seen<br>a kangaroo (and in a zoo<br>they can't hop..) <br>but if you do you'll recognise it<br>when I say it - your mind<br>is metaphorically, and no-one<br>handles metaphors like you do may I say, <br>like a kangaroo - huge hops<br>off into the horizon of thought<br>with what in marsupial body-language<br>may be bounding, boundless<br>joy</div><div style="margin:10px 0">a kangaroo which might in the world<br>of your poems which I can't hope<br>to imitate but I'll have a go, <br>be carrying a baby roo in its pouch with<br>its head sticking out<br>and a backward glance towards you<br>who one day will return grown-up<br>with a crumpled poem<br>in its own pouch<br>addressed to Mary Ruefle<br>mentioning in passing<br>immortality</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=461108" data-title="To Mary Ruefle, poet de Michael Shepherd" data-description="and since you're an American Poet or a poet writing in English or however you might put this in a cv which you'll surely never need being unique and therefore beyond all job descriptions except poet since you're, well, those things or that thing..."></div> </div> </div>

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