Can poetry matter

In the debate between accessible and difficult poems

Poets' poems and poems for people

Only the single poem and private reader matter

Both kinds and anything between can matter or not

Solid or made of air, a vase or heavy clay ashtray

One word repeated or many like a lei

An acquired taste, like wine, and like wine

Not sustenance, yet men die with their miseries

Uncut without it, news and mere matter

I advise everyone to keep a personal anthology of poems that matter

Or not. Perhaps it should be novels. Stones, insect wings,

Feathers, Birds you've seen, People loved.