Or is it each word which is prescient and craves a specific community of sound. Thus, the poem. About poets, I guess it's less about being prescient and more about cravings (generic and specific).
Do beets crave rosemary and walnuts? Does rosemary experience a pre-knowing & similar urge?
then you are sitting in bed with a favorite
ReplyDeleteshow on the screen and the idea of ice cream
of any flavor but always the smooth cold drip
down the throat and the front of the shirt
so much like childhood, so unlike it too
when you COULD almost always get what you
dream about from the fridge, but do not
sometimes indulge the whim, but think it over,
and over, and over