This is probably the right moment to introduce the Rules, such as they are. I won't talk about my husband or my kids, or be overly opinionated because this is supposed to be about poetry front and centre: keeping it that way is important, for reasons we'll now go into during this week's ten minutes. However, both will undoubtedly appear in the poetry, and this week's pairing is a case in point. Both poems are from Curt; Urbane, which is my only self-published pamphlet. You can order it here. Thanks for reading this far.