What is the meaning of this: i ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive. i say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out, or walk inside the poem’s room and feel the walls for a light switch. i want them to water-ski across the surface of a poem waving at the author’s name on the shore. but all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it. they begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means