The Method

Rise at 4, say prayers first for
safe passage and chance to give the
Fullness back: Drink a red-eye and
Read sources -- of stone heads on hills
And senex puers, Merwin as
Dante, a half dozen poems from
Vocalities of blue: Write down
The best stuff to toss into Your
Well: Then brood a while on warm wet
Bodies, and praise their curving swell:
And settle on this page at last,
My pen and mind salted, if you will,
By the shimmer of the brew, a
Swoon in all Your sources to the
Depths where opening vaults are found:
And begin to write that coinage down.