Annie Finch: "Blessing on the Poets"

A Blessing on the Poets
Patient earth-diggers, impatient fire-makers,
Hungry word-takers and roving sound-lovers,
Sharers and savers, musers and achers,
You who are open to hide or uncover,
Time-keepers and -haters, wake-sleepers, sleep-wakers:
May language’s language, the silence that lies
Under each word, move you over and over,
Turning you, wondering, back to surprise.
From SPELLS: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by Annie Finch (Wesleyan University Press, 2013)
First Published in A POET'S CRAFT: A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO MAKING AND SHARING YOUR POETRY (University of Michigan Press, 2013)