Logic is practiced here as a humorous pasttime since it is quite entertaining to follow its ironies and falacies. It also is a good source for absurd conclusions. Unlike a psychologist a poet does not start off with an intention to get some place. Rather she starts with the intention of looking, and follows where the looking leads. It is the process in which you find out what words mean to you and the words in return become good listeners.
Poetry is the place where words are tamed and educated by being surprisingly placed.
Thus a poem becomes more than the sum of its parts while the poet simply is. . . . More so than most people. It is the poet's job to notice things. The sound of those raindrops, the shape of the withered leaves, the music in the voice drifting through the window. In fact sometimes I wonder if the poet can live anywhere else but in the present.