If, as Kit Smart said, toads have compensation
_     _for being toads, “since there are stones whose
constituent particles are toads,” this particular
_     _Algonquian helps constitute a granite range
whose high inflections interweave. He flows
_     _between subject and object, neither and both.
He is, as the linguists say, non-configurational,
_     _and like the wind up there no one can tell
whence he came or where he goes. He’s all
_     _action, all tiny jerks whose frames overlap
so quick they almost look seamless, impulses
_     _received and renewed just about at the
same time and at the same fast speed but
_     _as if that is too slow and he could go faster
if he really tried. Impulse and impulse,
_     _each thought an impulse tried successfully
many times over. Try saying him.
_     _Try thinking him with no words.