Poems for Your Weekend

PoetryRx: poems for those who don't "get" poetry

Dear Friends,

This week, I solicited prescriptions for those who say they don’t “get” poetry. You’ve no doubt come across such symptomatic cases. Luckily, this is an entirely treatable condition.

There are familiar classics in the selection below, including Mary Oliver’s “Wild Geese” and Maggie Smith’s “Good Bones.” But I was pleased to discover several e…