Poem That Won't Stay Put

Poem That Won't Stay Put

Some people know words
that can rise up off the page
and visit places, like
a garden, a pool,
another country, the moon-
forswearing earthly realities-
a streaming nimbus
moving through the air,
stopping for afternoon tea,
anywhere, remembering, singing
a canticle at night,
and then at their pleasure,
reassembling in the book
and giving off light.