Free Write Monday prompt Poetry Reading

This is my post for #freewrite Monday Prompt Poetry Reading by @mariannewest

I have never been to a poetry reading but have seen them on tv, I think it would be interesting to go to one. I like the poems that make you stop and think. My Mother cared for a poet in her elderly days, her name was Laura Riding Jackson. She gave my Mother one of her books and signed it. Her poetry was over my head but did make me think..... I copied this poem of hers from Famous poets and poems.com it is called Yes and No

• Yes And No by Laura Riding Jackson
  Across a continent imaginary
  Because it cannot be discovered now
  Upon this fully apprehended planet—
  No more applicants considered,
  Alas, alas—

Ran an animal unzoological,
Without a fate, without a fact,
Its private history intact
Against the travesty
Of an anatomy.

Not visible not invisible,
Removed by dayless night,
Did it ever fly its ground
Out of fancy into light,
Into space to replace
Its unwritable decease?

Ah, the minutes twinkle in and out
And in and out come and go
One by one, none by none,
What we know, what we don't know.*

Mrs. Jackson lived off-grid for most of her life, I remember going to her house and falling in love with it, it was an old Florida style home with windows that were kept open, no a/c, and it was not hot in her house. Her refrigerator was run on propane. She had a huge open shed filled with all sorts of old tools and hand saws. It was a place that when you walked on the grounds, you stepped back in time. She was in her late eighties or early nineties when the State told her she had to get power lines run to her home or move out. I do not think you should be forced to have power if you wish to live without it. But she had power put in and she did not live long after that. She also wrote my Mother a Christmas greeting, I can not remember what it said but it made no sense to me and asked my Mother what it meant and she shrugged her shoulders and said she did not know but that is how people like her talked.