To express the inexpressible, like a black hole. Poetry spelled with a p. I take these limits and break them at the wall of my desire. Doff your thinking cup and drink from the waters of Zion or the Jordan's silty banks. Bankroll, bedroll, jellyroll.
American culture is fundamentally African.
Let your problems float, Pema writes. I know their tendency to sink, rock in chest gathers more than moss, radioactive charge that accumulates on the surfaces of metals and does not dissipate even when it becomes your fork. There were no choices then, and I took it. We put the form to the theory and we shake it all down. We say poetry answers to both these terms, but we don't know how.