even if your preferred mode is fragment,

      you need syntax

   to love.

   Still, there is a "leaking" when we try to

   put things together.

   As a bowl starts out being a bowl, the not-

      bowlness

   drains out of it. Later,

   form is not something we remember

      doing, like being born.


-Brenda Hillman, quoted by Mark Doty at AWP 2009