POEMS
By Dan Sklar
When I read
through poetry
magazines
I come to
dislike poetry
unless it
sounds like
a real person
talking rather
than a person
writing poetry
which sounds
too much
like a poem
instead of
some piece
of writing
that takes me
to a little beach
in a town
in New England
in August
where no one
knows me or
where a person
looks at
another person
and loves
that person.
Dan Sklar teaches writing at Endicott College in Massachusetts. He rides
a bicycle to work every day.