The poetic word is potent. Like one hundred and seven proof bourbon, it makes me drunk. Plenty of pages of prose are distilled in a single stanza. It is irresistible as I swirl it in my mouth. Sniff it. Taste it. Breathe it in. I hold it up to the light to peer into its soul. With voracious appetite, I invert its glass until the last drip slides slowly south onto my silver tongue.
"A poem is magnificent or it is nothing." - Wallace Stevens