Monday, December 9, 2024

READING POETRY

The work is not 
to understand, 

deliberate, or make 
an inference; 

it's not so much 
interpreting as 

staring 
down a word 

until it means 
something—

then nothing—
then everything—

and at last,
if you're lucky, 

finally just 
itself again—only

now with that
explicitly 

unspeakable bit 
of difference.