What's happening is the language. Not only in the usual sense of being interesting (which it is), but in the new sense that words are events, as real….

Here, for a moment, we are joined..

BEFORE THERE WAS BILLY COLLINS & TED KOOSER, THERE WAS EDGAR GUEST.

The poem is not only the point of origin for all the language and narrative arts, the poem returns us to the very social function of art as such..