To a student

Now that I'm looking at it in the light of day, my email to my student looks sappy, over-wrought and something. But really, I remember asking teachers who I liked to critique my poems, and they didn't really help any. Now that I'm the teacher, I kind of know why (it's something you REALLY REALLY REALLY don't want to do because student poems are almost always not good). Of course, mine were. :)

So I sort of regret posting it here. But I'm not gonna take it away. I feel sort of Rilke-esque. So there.