“to come away with Hesiod”

to come away with Hesiod and leave the rock as though to rocks the tree to trees and dwell on other things imagine the injunction to leave the mint to its own devices among the dust & stones in the shadow of rocks or tree-roots hard as rocks imagine poems left to their own devices as poets gorge on air & airy thoughts & figures – the thought sobers me to the bone of a sobriety earned at the expense of the airiness Hesiod was commissioned to name but who wouldnt seize a staff of bay or ash or gum and trade common or garden cough for lungsfull of song taking the world in one’s stride careering towards heaven?