2021/12/20 #poetry The words, to read, with meaning so gripping, written by someone far away in time, what else is there to do but to ignore all other tasks, to dive into the words and thrash your limbs, driving for deeper meaning until you exhaust yourself? Or take it in little pieces, broken up to fill moments of leisure for days and days. Seems like a nice plan until you're stuck deep in its structure, wondering only about the questions it has posed, how its threads tie up again, then you read, and let the world wait, and wrap yourself snugly in its grasp.