What do you do if the recalcitrant incoherence
....is riddled through with feeling?
There is no starting or stopping then--
no abrupt courageous facing of a fact,
....lion-bodied female-visaged actual other
............to question.
...............................Dreaming or awake
....the facts seem to lie about to speak
a gift of tongues.     Only the free
............medium,
the speech, rings
....--If I could hear aright? by waiting?--
............rings true. 

To dispell shadows of meaning
revealing inconsequent things,

....the immediate empire.

-- Robert Duncan; from 'Letters, Poems 1953 - 1956'