Means to Fear Pain

More than one writer’s noted
That written lines feel more real
Found as excerpted fragments

Represented in someone
Other than the author’s text.
The power of quotation

Is the power of a frame,
Of any framing device—
It’s rarely the frame itself

That transforms what’s inside it,
But the fact of the framing,
Which is also a cutting.

If you know how to cut well,
You know how to discover.