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1 By Billy Collins

2 I ask them to take a poem and hold it to the light like a color slide

3 Or press an ear against its hive,

4 I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out,

5 Or walk inside the poem’s room and feel the walls for a light switch.

6 I want them to waterski across the surface of a poem waving at the author’s name on the shore.

7 But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with a rope and torture a confession out of it.

8 They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means.

9 Visual Poetry

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