Take
a hammer to the amphora of
soft Euphrates clay
and
it will fracture meticulously there, and there,
and
there, the way a sentence yields at the invisible
seams
and faults of grammar's fluid syntactic
tectonics.Take
a chisel to the mountainside — basalt,
gabbro,
porphyry — and, well, what did you expect?
Jack
Gilbert
