“In school you learned to write as if the reader Were in constant danger of getting lost, A problem you were taught to solve not by writing clearly But by shackling your sentences and paragraphs together. Think about transitions. Remember how it goes? Late in the paragraph you prepare for the transition to the next paragraph – The great leap over the void, across that yawning indentation. You were taught the art of the flying trapeze, But not how to write.”
