By Richard Mather
Having material
weight,
a poem can be shaped,
sculptured
and refined;
erected as units,
structures,
factories, bridges, outhouses and T
O
W
E
R
S
Or
miraculously
sus-
pended
in
the air,
b u o y a n t
black
crafts
in the
milky
void.
Or
else
bolted
upright
at the base
of the world,
and supported
by its own true
and deep
foundations
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