Poetry has an urgency when you who write it do;
this means the temporal overcomes the spatial;
(I might as well spell it out for you)
it means you finally get it that you’ll die;
the best poems are a long sigh
with the words a total accident; did you really think
I was saying something specific? That a plan
was in the poem’s plan? That a Poem is a Machine made by Man?
No, it is the realization that the ending
is something—depend on it—I’m sending
in a complete overcoming of the thing.
There’s a number of hexagonal sides.
Loves are on the amusement rides.
I take one step and sing.