Paradoxes of Uncertainty

You should watch now for the moment
The clear idea disappears, and
Sleep steals over the waiting page.

What were you planning to write then,
What were you planting in your long rows?
Was it anything or was it

Reflective parrying of words,
Phrase against phrase, old reflexes,
Sentences that only further

Suggest dementia for being
So quick to the tip of the tongue—
Suggesting that these are the last,

Most reflexive, automatic,
Not a word one has to think for.