Are they vehicles to transport the real? Specifically, the reality of objects. What is truer,words on or the page blank? How is reality best set-upon? Best expressed? How many views does the apple have of the poem? Of the poet?
How real is the chef's knife when unseen in the drawer? Yet, visually experienced by everything in that drawer. Does the chef's memory create the knife?
Brazen Images of the Old Fishing Town
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doesn't know the elasticity
on the ferry to Marin
climbing tall equatorial strains
doodads become geometrics
under the leagues
even if it swells
doesn't the rain blow
away in time?