Sometimes I Wish . . .

Sometimes, I wish I were a poet.

When I read the poems that Garrison Keillor selects for the Writer's Almanac each morning, I wish I could write poetry like Billy Collins or Emily Dickinson or Maya Angelou . . .

When I discovered the book of Shakespeare's sonnets while I was purging last week--the book I thought I'd tossed out years ago--and I read those lovely, lovely words again, I wished I were poet.

When a friend left this nugget of e.e. cummings's poem "i carry your heart with me," on Face...