7Poetry is a plan for a slit in the face of a bronze fountain goat and the path of fresh drinking water.

8Poetry is a slipknot tightened around a time-beat of one thought, two thoughts, and a last interweaving thought there is not yet a number for.

9Poetry is an echo asking a shadow dancer to be a partner.

10Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly the air.

11Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations.

12Poetry is a fossil rock-print of a fin and a wing, with an illegible oath between.

13Poetry is an exhibit of one pendulum connecting with other and unseen pendulums inside and outside the one seen.

14Poetry is a sky dark with a wild-duck migration.

15Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.

16Poetry is any page from a sketchbook of outlines of a doorknob with thumb-prints of dust, blood, dreams.

17Poetry is a type-font design for an alphabet of fun, hate, love, death.

18Poetry is the cipher key to the five mystic wishes packed in a hollow silver bullet fed to a flying fish.

19Poetry is a theorem of a yellow-silk handkerchief knotted with riddles, sealed in a balloon tied to the tail of a kite flying in a white wind against a blue sky in spring.

20Poetry is a dance music measuring buck-and-wing follies along with the gravest and stateliest dead-marches.

21Poetry is a sliver of the moon lost in the belly of a golden frog.

22Poetry is a mock of a cry at finding a million dollars and a mock of a laugh at losing it.

23Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower.

24Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it.

25Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during a moment.

26Poetry is a fresh morning spider-web telling a story of moonlit hours of weaving and waiting during a night

27Poetry is a statement of a series of equations, with numbers and symbols changing like the changes of mirrors, pools, skies, the only never-changing sign being the sign of infinity.

28Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.

29Poetry is a section of river-fog and moving boat-lights, delivered between bridges and whistles, so one says, ‘Oh!’ and another, ‘How?’

30Poetry is a kinetic arrangement of static syllables.

31Poetry is the arithmetic of the easiest way and the primrose path, matched up with foam-flanked horses, bloody knuckles, and bones, on the hard ways to the stars.

32Poetry is a shuffling of boxes of illusions buckled with a strap of facts.

33Poetry is an enumeration of birds, bees, babies, butterflies, bugs, bambinos, babayagas, and bipeds, beating their way up bewildering bastions.

34Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.