BUT THEN

BUT THEN

poets marrying poets
do not do well

let me labour
the obvious: on
the one hand

Ted
   on the other

Sylvia

and on the other
      I leave that to those
scrutinizing their
letters
   delving into
           their lives

this whole enterprise
a dubious affair looking
                for dubious affairs

something
     about love and poetry

in this configuration
such a curious mismatch

amusing in a sense

    but then there is death