March 5, 2006
(I was 61)
At one time a line of words
would come to my attention
in a tone of potential
importance
and I would immediately
write it raw
record it where I would
encounter it again
or as often examine it then
listening to it
to think of what it might
say next
or of what was said before
and to consider how those
sounds sounded
Now after many a line of
words
potential importance seems
to be relative
Words that would not save
the world
are relegated to the memory
file
where they are easily
forgotten or obscured
or absorbed by resounding
sounds
and it is the consideration
that is lost
the expressive struggle to
say what it was
in such a way that another
might believe it
or might offer an irresistible
revision
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