The blissed high surge a metrical design
can April into almost any line,
when used with skill, is surely well-worth praise.
So, too, the multitude of other ways
that sound effects can make a poet's words
woods scatteredly lit up with hidden birds.

But poems at their best
need little or no mellifluousness
from received reality
to make a poet's words
worlds multiplying
far deeper into the blood
that any woods, however lit,
can penetrate.