I don’t know anything really of Tennessee Williams
a writer a poet a lover a playwright a man
determined ambitious passionate
driven there in that way that some call crazy others
the best light
oil he said is found in your own backyard like that kingdom of heaven within
this is why today before the sun has risen I write this short poem beginning with his name
an homage to a human who came before showing me a bit of the way
with a light he didn’t know he’d cast
into my green gardened yard