The crowd is made of little gods, and there is still no heaven.

I tend to like the way poets form communities. Writing can be lonely after all. Modern life can be lonely. Poets do seem to be more social than fiction writers. This could be because of poetry's roots in the oral tradition - poetry is read aloud and even performed. I'm just speculating, of course. At any rate, because poets form these groups, they learn from one another. That is one of the best things about being a poet.

clarity need not be equivalent to / readability. How readable is the world?

The future is all around here.' It's a place, anyplace where we don't exist.

Thus drivers inching southward will see the phalanx of birds heading west as one spontaneous gesture.

Poets tend to form loose groups - the "Romantics" or the "Imagists". And sometimes they write manifestoes in the name of these groups. This can be good. It forces the poet and the audience to think. But it can also be dangerous. It can turn into a branding device so that potential readers believe they know all they need to know once they know you've been associated with a certain group or position. It can freeze things in place. That's where thinking stops.

But here I hold your dream in my poem.