poetry by the fire

you can't improve
on t.s. Elliot, you can only
read
the lines and try
to understand
what the hell he was
talking about.
same goes for Yeats,
Ezra Pound,
and much of Frost.
you settle in with a dictionary
a thesaurus,
a book on mythology
and a set
of encyclopedia
britannicas,
then begin a pleasant
evening of
reading poetry by the fire,
trying so hard
not to toss any books in.