Sunday, February 4, 2018

Take a hammer to the amphora


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