What is the author, Andrei Codrescu, trying to saying in "A Leafy Angel?"

Answer 1

What matters is what YOU THINK he is trying to say in that poem.

http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/poetry-explication.html

Follow ALL directions on this webpage -- including reading and rereading the poem as many times as it takes.

Answer 2

actually all that matters is what my instructor thinks it means