Spiral Staircase.

The article discusses the author's experiences of poetry and how it reveals things that are already there to people. She comments about a businessman who asked her why he had denied himself poetry for so long. The author remembers her usually distraught mother and how she would sound calm when reading poetry to her at bedtime as a child. Details are given about the death of Scout, her family cat, and how each person can have a different perspective on the same thing.