No Ideas Except In Things Poem by Michael Pruchnicki

that was one poet's key to his poetry

every thing he wrote about
in both his prose and poetry
from a red wheel barrow
and a chicken
to the stubborn child
with diphtheria
who resisted
his use of force and
the wooden tongue depressor

he wrote explicitly
with a poet's eye
of cluttered yards
and garage mechanics
and the gangbangers
on Guinea Hill
and life along
the Passaic River
-all the while he visited
and tended his patients
with a physician's loving care