When a poem is written and then read, it moves both away from and toward the reader, and the mind follows, converting the free flow of reading to the linguistic equivalent of Cubism; its sounds and shapes rearrange and reintegrate themselves until the poem is continuously on the move.
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A Poem Has No Choice But To Avoid Itself
To get at the centre of a poem, you first have to get very far away from it, so time and distance need to be constantly in play.