(companion to the preceding poem)
Life-changing epiphanies, and slick enthymemes
with premises intricately arranged.
A horde of mixed metaphors, cascading in reams,
as signs from signifieds are playfully estranged.
Pentameter lines and alexandrines!
And a lively distribution of metrical
occurrences around an agreed upon point,
establishing a flow centrifugal
in which the corpus moves freely - head, limb, and joint…
word, phrase, clause, and punctuation, that is to say -
a balance of long and short sentences
that predicate, from things that are, some things that may,
and tell of promises, deeds, conceits, penances…
Things that beg continuity of thought
through connections more or less loose, more or less taut.