filling the void (ammons)

...if you're empty

space only, the form is open
to articial, say, irrational, say

mad fixations that drop into your
bowl: arrange a full life or

the terror of emptiness will fill
emptiness with terror: love's the

best filler but isn't cheap and
anway money can buy only a semblance:

if your forms aren't full of love it
doesn't matter what they're full of:

I do the best I can and god, I suspect,
does the same: his plans allow for

the emergence of the unexpected and
attempt amends for the consequences:

I am in this way made in his image:

- 52, 'Strip,' Glare, A. R. Ammons