As I said, “I do not write poems about you.” This is not a bad thing—it means I do not twist sentences or make phrases do tricks in order to convey some sentiment with queer metaphor or awkward simile.
My feelings cannot be measured through words or misrepresented by their inability to distil the magnitude of real emotion.
When it comes to saying how I feel as a poet, I am dumb,
and fall back on that old cliché,
those plain three words of common stock—
That’s somehow enough,
the truth is made of simpler stuff.