Words are insufficient: the mountains “remain to be described” And yet the poet establishes a sort of grandeur “in whatever mode”:
They wait to be described […]
geologist, surveyor, artist:
crowsfeet on a map, the heavy
colours cut and carved, numbers
and weight, percentages, all
methods to paraphrase
certain immensity.They remain
to be seen:
Douglas Barbour A Poem As Long As The Highway
It’s the waiting and the remaining that get stressed as they hug the left margin.
And so for day 2233
23.01.2013