How to Write About Poetry

There’s been a Death, in the Opposite House,
As lately as Today —

I know it, by the numb look
Such Houses have — alway —

The Neighbors rustle in and out —
The Doctor — drives away —

A Window opens like a Pod —
Abrupt — mechanically —
Somebody flings a mattress out —

The Children wonder if it died — on that —
I used to — when a Boy —

The Minister — goes stiffly in —
As if the House were His —
And He owned all the Mourners — now —
And little Boys — besides —

And then the Milliner — and the man
Of the Appalling Trade —
To take the measure of the House —

There’ll be that Dark Parade —
Of Tassels — and of Coaches — soon —

It’s easy as a Sign —
The Intuition of the News —
In just a Country Town —