Peggy O'Brien says of Moya Cannon, "She holds and handles indivudual words as though they were fascinating, exotic objects, as in "Thole-Pin," an entire poem about the survival of a word, aptly "thole," "to endure." It is:

Thole-Pin
Who speaks of victory? Endurance is all.
---Rainer Maria Rilke

Words, old tackle

obsolete tools
moulder in outhouses, sheds of the mind---
the horse-collar rots on a high hook;
a flat-iron and an open razor rust together.

Sometimes a word is kept on
at just one task, its hardest,
in the corner of some trade or skill.
Thole survives,
a rough dowel
hammered into a boat's gunnel
to endure---
a pivot
seared between elements.

Nacheinander survives or endures in the "Proteus" episode of Ulysses to be "kept on at just one task" to show how Cannon (and other great poets) puts one word after another so beautifully.