PRESTO!

Out of the dissolution of my mind
Precipitates the crystal of a thought,
And thus a verse begins, which then may bind
With other bits until a poem is wrought.

Where nothing was but a chaotic storm,
As if by magic, here appears a form.

Or is it, rather, being lost in woods
No path or track or trace to find my way,
Or being swept along by turbulent floods
Pounded and confounded and astray?

But then a light appears, a hand descends,
I come to ground, and my confusion ends.

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