the poet builds

a Boat,
the reader
provides the crew
and sets it sailing;

a Chapel,
and it’s the reader
puts the choir in it
and fills it with music;

or
a Space,
that gets fitted out with furniture
and becomes a room.

The poet
takes a black page
and with his pen
absorbs the ink
and discovers the poem
in its centre.

The reader builds
a Poem;
              the poet
              is wont
              to be unavailable.