create a great penumbra of imagined difficulty and mystification throughout the whole poem

Reading poetry has the salutary effect on me of forcing me to read, and think, at a different pace than the rest of my life demands.

THE TONE OF THE VIXEN IS ELEGIAC, MYSTERIOUS, HISTORICAL

The thought movement is, because of the lack of punctuation, fundamentally paratactic; the grammatical structure puts thoughts and events that in ordinary writing are usually organized hierarchically instead on the same plane, creating unexpected connections.