The poet's discourse can be compared to the track of a charged particle through a cloud-chamber. An energised field of association and connotation, of overtones and undertones, of rebus and homophone, surround its motion, and break from it in the context of collision. . in Western poetry so much of the charged substance is previous poetry.
To know that there's a good chance that this is something that could potentially be around well after I leave this planet. . . it's a good feeling.