sense of arrival

To think not of the poem ending but to think of the poem arriving.

arrival point

To think of the poem’s end as being an arrival.

never sure of arrival

Today I still love, even foolishly, the signs and wonders, felt presences or nearnesses of meaning, where we must follow, in trust, having no more sure a guarantee of our arrival than does the adventurer in a fairy or hero tale.

—Robert Duncan, Fictive Certainties (New Directions, 1985) p. 46