The title of Wesley McNair’s, Why We Need Poetry, couldn’t be better for purposes here of showing how poetry can be equal in sensual qualities to those in music and the visual arts.

Our current Maine State Poet Laureate chose an early-morning timeframe to portray a well-lit nocturnal environment in which two people converge in the quietest of spaces: 3 a.m, a newly wallpapered kitchen. In our correspondence, Mr. McNair quotes Mary Oliver once calling poetry “intimate conversation.”