The people you love, for whom you care, deserve the best from you, a gift from your very heart. I've ordered several poems from you, JJ, and each person who received the poem including Mom and Dad, my fianc , and a grieving friend, were as moved by them as I was. You truly have a talent for transferring my heart onto paper. Poetry is not just some cutesy rhyme or a writer's best effort at deliberate obscurity.
Poetry is the breath sharply inhaled, a catch in the throat.
Poetry is a hand-tossed stone, a slow ripple in a still pond. Poetry is the besmitten face of someone who adores you. Poetry is wild stallions splashing in the river at sunset, rising up, dripping, like gods from the bowels of the earth.