The feels like a simple, yet definite, declaration of imagination as a place of poetic inspiration.  Possibly a form of escape, but here it feels as if its placed as part of ontological development, a necessary step in a processes needed to go somewhere else in order to see what might be.

I like the 'invisible stair', it's almost looking back at me, but for my life I can't quite define why it is there.  It is needed, a mode to juxtapose the frame of the "window", but I'm tripping on the steps to get there.  "The step that is not taken/In Imagination", what, if there is a world without the constraints would we not find that step?  Is imagination necessary to make that next movement, that belief is needed before a baby can walk and they needed to see it first before they can mimic it themselves?

"Apple branches".  That sticks out a little more for me; gives the fruit and living wood in one.

"The step not taken" It feels like "that is" is just beats that are in the way of the Frost.

Something of what I wanted to say is that the step that is not taken seems so much desirable than the step that is; one is full of potential, the other leads only to sad reality. The grass is greener, basically. 

Thanks for your advice!

I like the first three lines, because they posit a clear idea--that beyond a flowering apple tree, there is some 'world' blooming, like the blooms on the tree. What I want to know, after reading those lines, is what this world is and what significance it holds for the speaker. The next two lines walk us back to something much, much more abstract. An imaginary step becomes a door--physically, I can't make this work in my head. How is a step a door? A step becoming a stair makes more sense, because stairs consist of steps; the idea of a single imagined 'step' connecting to other, similar steps and forming a stair, is clearer, but the door gets in the way of the stairs. 

>And is not a window  
>  
>Which can only contain

I don't understand why we need this; it's hard to trace the central idea being developed because the series of phrases seem to be getting away from you. We start with an imagined step, then we see a door, then stairs, and suddenly we're defining the stairs by what they 


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Another world blooms  
Past the open branches  
Of a flowering apple tree.  
The step that is not taken  
In imagination  
Becomes a door that leads  
To an invisible stair,  
And is not a window,  
Which can only contain   
A view of reality. 

April 16, 2022, ~5:20-39 PM

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