Alchemical Poetry

LET US WRITE

poems easy to read
simple to understand—
not the kind of thing
that Donne or Milton
wrote, nor the Bard’s
still greater brand,
the kind of thing 
we make for children 
who don't know how
to read, for grownups
who forgot or never
learned to understand—
for the dead, perhaps,
to hear the damned.

JH

And another way to look at it.