To Ross, on becoming a Poet

Ross, you are becoming a poet, my dear. Rather, you are a poet. You sit at the round kitchen table and write a poem. I don't remember writing poems when I was 8, I think I was 10 or older. I am amazed by you. I am amazed that your first poem got published this year, and that you sit there, and write these poems so easily, and with so much skill. You are simply amazing. You know how to use language and give it meaning and form. I am so proud of the person you are becoming and the poet that is emerging.