No one would ever mistake Muhammad Ali for a butterfly or a honeybee. And yet poetry uses metaphor to show us how they are connected and what they have in common. Try it yourself.

A poem can be a sturdy bridge that leads the way from me to you. ∘ A poem can be a zoom, a room, a bloom, a bridge, a boom, a zing. A poem can be just like me, too. We both can be so many things.