The excess
of assenting,

the luxury of grasping not keeping
like hands that forget,

the modest speech
of the ready soul

—tremulous
occurrences—

sculpt us,
erect us,
undo us,
to lift us again
firmer
in spite of relapses,
straying,
distractions,
the usual diversions that you
knew how to evade
with iron gentleness,
immeasurable workman.