[The poems]

I wrote were contrapuntals to the lines
spun reckless of scientific inquiry and self-inquiry
wonderment and

I'd been following.obsession.
There was a way, I saw, into existence,
to turn all of it—edgewise,

inspirit an unlikely echo, louder
than I thought was possible.
In a poem, my reflection (speaker) touches palms

with the boglight description of who I mean to become.
Being—an exact science:urgency. Yet with poetry
I remind myself of how I desire—fold

into one thing, and then another folds,
not just into art, but meeting somehow
into a life.at the weathered crease of awe.