The river is moving. The blackbird must be flying. - Wallace Stevens

Poetry is the subject of the poem, From this the poem issues and To this returns. Between the two, Between issue and return, there is An absence in reality, Things as they are. Or so we say. But are these separate?

An unaffected man in a negative light Could not have borne his labor nor have died Sighing that he should leave the banjo’s twang.

The poem, through candor, brings back a power again That gives a candid kind to everything.