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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