Carm

What can it do? You look
It up, find examples,
Read the things writers write

About the best cases,
Then study those cases
In the palm of your mind,

Your corner of the mind,
Wondering, what is it
Sometimes makes it precious?

It’s a hook. It’s a burr.
It’s a surprising grace
In the material.

It’s that drop at the end
Dropped again and again,
The thing that becomes you

Without ever turning
The least little bit less
Its obdurate strangeness.