We are all full of discourses that we only half understand and half mean.

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

We are all full of discourses that we only half understand and half mean.

Metaphor is ritual sacrifice. It kills the look-alike. No, metaphor is homeopathy.

But here I hold your dream in my poem.

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.

We sleep together in the dark but confuse light with love.