I use poetry as a means to get beyond words

I, like you, live in language.

I am enthralled, enraptured,

and then language alludes me.

 

It turns on me.

It imposes on me.

It frames me.

 

Poetics comes along

offering manoeuvres

I wouldn’t otherwise have.

 

The trick is –

how not to be framed by poetics?