the danish word digte means
both to write poems and
to caulk (i.e. is not just a chance
homonymy) to caulk
reality the pointing
between language and
world digtning is
the actual process of
filling in holes and
cracks as when ship’s hulls
are caulked and brushed
with tar and pitch
the first splash of
burnt umbra on the greenest
leaf of summer
are we dealing with a
false beauty spot
or with a reminder
perhaps on the
highest day of the year with
the mortality of everything the
final return of
everything to itself
to where it came from?
down in the old
norse deeper than the ‘dictare’
of the latin
in another soil the word
‘digte’ also means
to seal (see for yourself
in the dictionary
of the danish language
volume three) just as
when the magnolia tree
pulls heaven and earth
tighter together
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