Subtitle: “Can You Imagine” and the English teacher

I follow the words
as I hear it read beautifully
by a craftsman.
One should float on the sounds
and not pounce, dissect, underline,
and seize upon phrases
to use as examples.
But I deal unapologetically in tropes,
the personification
masterfully used,
the imagery created
by sensory details.
My eyes use a highlighter
as do my ears.
While I tear the poem apart,
I marvel at its wholeness.
It is so smartly crafted
and beautiful in all its parts.