how to snag a meander

​I love it that my niece, Melissa, my front-line editor, looks at me strangely every time she went through my poems. She will ask me questions on structures of poetry and I would have no idea how I conform to those structures without any prior knowledge.  So she gave me a challenge to read Eve Merriam’s “how to eat a poem” and write a poem in that style or something along that concept.  And after pondering for a day, I wrote this and send to her.