and then there's what you feel
while you do it
and then there are the words
that come later
to describe, recreate, narrate it--
all at a third remove
from the doing. And
then there's poetry,
a doing in words, the act of writing
and a pointing back to
the ultimate and absolute
the relativity of words
their limited and limiting circumscriptions,
their stalactites of feeling,
their penumbras of meaning,
the deep cave of their origin.