How Do You Find A Poet? Poem by Joseph Wraithbone

How can you see a poet
Through the disguise of an everyday man?
How does the little girl in the corner
Write with the perspective of a grown woman?

Can you find them by the callouses on their fingers?
By the quills in their houses?
By the ink that stains their hands?

How can you find a poet
Within the crowd of moving life?
How can you sense their presence
That feels like a tender touch
But can sting like the back of a hand?

How do you find a poet
Deep down within the chambers of one's heart?
How do the words flow out
Like air rushing to and fro inside one's lungs?

How can you see the poet
Through the disguise of an everyday man?
How do you find the poet
That always lurks within?