LETTER Poem by Rutger Kopland

Today I was to write you a letter
a letter in which I wanted to understand something

but I didn't write it, it went too slowly
I wrote and I looked at my hand

how that hand was slowly drawing words

in that handwriting something like a house began
to grow - I wanted to know what it was we'd lived in

to understand that, I was to write a letter
but all I saw were the clumsy words

that I was drawing before
I understood them