Megan’s Reviews > Susceptible to Light: Poetry by Chelan Harkin > Status Update

And truly
to shine your eyes,
see the beauty of things and say so
is a simple, astonishing feat.

A poem is the realization
that poetry is laid about everywhere,
that it makes itself apparent and easy, that multiple stanzas are written
in every moment of each petal,
that buckets of inspiration
drip from the dew drop…