Beneath the Surface–An Acrostic Golden Shovel
by Paulette Demers Turco

   for Wallace Stevens’ “We Must be Abstract–III”

Wonder liberates, exhilarates the
Serious, calculating mind. A poem
Transcends. It leaps from any frame, refreshes.
Emerging from the ocean depths, its life
Ventures to a verdant forest, so
Eerie, may see bouquets of warblers that
Nest before their quest for novas. We
Sing refreshed from poems that we share.