<div><p><I>That art should once have been marked<BR>with this delicacy: always only one<BR>of each thing made, so that your poem<BR>has its one life on the sheet<BR>you have chosen for it, or the snapshot<BR>of the birthday party, everything<BR>in the room upended by the children's<BR>jubilation, survives only<BR>in the single defended piece of glass.</I></p><p><B>Rick Barot</B> was born in the Philippines, and received his MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He is the author of <I>The Darker Fall</I> and <I>Want</I> and teaches at the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.</p></div>