A Poet's Grief (Clint's Grief) Comments

Thank you Nosheen. I wrote this poem for a friend who was writing a novel about a man whose wife was brutally murdered. The man was a poet and was injured in the attack and rendered mute. I so identified with the character that is was easy for me to write a series of poems for the book that she never finished. The mute poet is the perfect metaphor I think. I believe many poets express themselves much better in writing than in speech.