Catalyst 46 – This is Just to Say

Catalyst
Forty-Six was: What’s your favorite poem? Why?

Here’s my text:

If I had been asked this question years ago, I think I would have ended
up with a Robert Frost poem as for the longest time, he was my favorite
poet. I have always loved “Nothing Gold Can Stay” and used to write it
in my diaries. But that was all before I was introduced to William
Carlos Williams. As soon as I read this poem, I fell completely in love.
I can’t even tell you why. I think it’s because it’s so ordinary, so
simple. Such a beautiful representation of something that’s a part of
regular, married, loving life.



this is just to say

i have eaten

the plums

that were in

the icebox



and which

you were probably

saving

for breakfast.



Forgive me

they were delicious

so sweet

and so cold.