OF FELTMAKING

OF FELTMAKING

The secret of feltmaking.
Wool pressed in tin miners' boots like the charge
Felt on inner seas which twin mallets drum
In the wooly twists of each cochlear nerve belt.

Felt boots on snow, mallets wound with wool,
A whispering evasion: consonance;
Cracks in teeth, cracking joints, a wordless
Dawn beneath a blanket: assonance

Frames days, press frames, the ancients' method:
Adaptation: tin miners' boots of pressed wool,
Electric felt drummed on wooly seas, the wordless
Music of belted blankets along snow,

The whispering method felt, drummed, heard
At dawn, in press frames of cochlear wool.