A phrase

Hazel White, poet, has a phrase, 'Vigilance is not an orchard."

I like it because I don't know what it means, or, because I don't know what it means, I like it.

So much of language, especially poetry, works because the writer trusts the reader will be intrigued enough by what the poet might or might not have meant to permit a piece of the poet's language to lodge in reader consciousness long enough to make a meaning or to reject meaning altogether.

Even once rejected, meaning can still occur and, if not meaning then something important like it.

Spicer's passage about the goddess getting out of the ocean is more or less meaningless, and very poetic. Even though I have no idea what it means I like it the moment I hear it and have been thinking about it ever since.