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K Because a poet's vocation is to make everything difficult that is easy, and vice versa, the knotted crown becomes him or her with its convoluted cluster of filigreed intertwinings. Anyone near the poet must resist the temptation to trace and retrace the various loops and turnings in order to locate the starting point of any of the designs. Sometimes when a parent notices knots beginning to develop on a child's crown, that parent attempts to file, scrape, or sand them off, or, as in recent news, sear them off with a blow torch. Such endeavors are, of course, illegal, though not incomprehensible.

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