When the point
Needs to get home
In time for dinner
Sentences, punctuated with words
Illustrated in paragraphs
Convey the point across time and space
Predict the walls in readers' minds
Scaling them in advance
Or leaving ladders lying around
Where do points come from?
When a motive and an expectation
Love each other very much
The business of expectations
Is staffed by an army of motives
That somehow add up, collaterally
Prose imagines that the units are the same
Feet per hour
Pounding the paved floors
Expectations per motive
A unity in form
A mess in practice
Roman Ryan 