PERSONISM: A MANIFESTO

WALK HOMEClosure is importantto form, not dark orintense, just “we lit outat once for home,” and thenthe accent of feeton pavement, the clear,soft quality of stress, a privately ownedairplane, the snow rimmedfeeder, one pigmy nepticulidmoth,until it’s done. At any rate,this business of couplets, lighthouse, beacon,traffic light, some other signal, so a poetmight by careful exploitationdetermine the relation between things.Between things. The glowoutside is more like lamplightthan moonlight, as if such things matter.In relentless observationthe injection of the Iis superfluous, it’s not dark or intense,just “say what you think you think,” or“the upper reaches of my beehives in summerare filled with humid air,” orLowenthal 15