Why Poetry Can Be Hard For Most People (Dorothea Lasky)

This poem by Dorothea Lasky gives me the shivers. Its talk of ghosts and its common language and its calm, kind tone as it explains why poetry is difficult and why reading and writing it can be hard and why relationships between people and between the past and present are so tangled and so complicated is why I think I love this poem.

Favorite line: "Because speaking to the dead is not something you want to do / When you have other things to do in your day"

Because speaking to the dead is not something you want to do
When you have other things to do in your day - See more at: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/23690#sthash.8WxQ0MXc.dpuf