The other day I ran into a friend I hadn't seen in a while, at the local coffee shop. And we talked. What a pleasure, to sit over a cup of coffee with an old Irish poet, playwright, actor, engineer, inventor, passionately opinionated Viet Nam vet, discussing poetry!  Sharing from our cell phones the latest things we've scribbled down......
And later he sent me this:

The Artist's Hand

The potters wheel that spun so fine,
The artists touch that made it whine,
The hands positioned from the train of thought,
The beauty of the artist and goblet wrought,

Nick Collier