Movement

There’s no poetic essence,
No more than there’s an essence,
A core indivisible,

To any given person,
But there are certain moments
When a giveaway movement

Makes you laugh. Well, isn’t that
Just poetry! For instance,
Chapman’s actual Homer

Turned Magellan’s fictional
Wild surmise in Darien—
Keats’s real experience

Of vast imagination
Expressed as an imagined
Experience of vast fact.