"The poem did not come with a birth certificate," he said.
As the poem came out of his mouth, a second sound could be heard in the audience: breaths suddenly drawn.
This poem had come to notice after being published in a magazine.
It also gives one the time to digest the meanings, and the poem then comes at you much more clearly.
As it developed, however, longer poems came to the foreground.
The poem he had learned for his mother years ago came back suddenly to the young atheling's mind.
And yet the poems about her husband and his death came from further away.
A poem will come to her, usually out of "ordinary life."
The poem - the last of its four books was released in 1974 - comes out of left field.
And the poem comes from one of her books.