Poem for St. Francis

Sylvester Pollet said he was influenced by the nature poetry of Japanese and Chinese writers.“The way that they could do so much with so few words fascinated me….and I suppose one consistent effort in my writing has been to try to learn to approach their clarity of image, but in ordinary local situations and language. Poem for St. Francis, for example, is my attempt to record, and may be to understand better, something I saw happen at the bird feeder behind my house.”