A reader read a poem and decided

he would disagree with me.

I didn’t offer the poem for someone

necessarily to read and simply agree.

Neither did I write it to provoke

a significant degree of disharmony.

I wrote it as an observation on the

worship of I and Thou or me and Thee,

but  the fellow apparently felt the

need to tell it as only he could see,

and I saluted his choice to offer what

he thought the matter should be.

In response I e-mailed him my reply,

“A poem is a poem; not all is autobio-

graphy.

Not all ‘he’ in the poem is me; some

might be ‘she,’ and if one looks carefully,

it often applies not just to me or she

but also to none other than thee.”

But only if one is open to see, you see.