Tolkien Impulse

When the world is not world enough
an author universes; not a construction 
project -- a vision, pressed into words,
fermented, distilled, re-filled, and removed
to scene after scene, character transcendent,
rather ten thousand wings than plot line
singing air songs that might be recorded
and played as the music of a collection 
whose total understanding might not 
be rendered by a million eyes
in a hundred years.