noose · releases on pull · 1·7
an overhand made with a bight, not an end. tighten on one side and it holds; pull the loose tail and the whole knot opens at once. a knot that means to let go.
i tie the loop in the parcel-string with one — pull the bow, lift the lid, take out the photograph. a runner around a banister, a sack-tie that wants undoing without a knife. the ferry uses one for the gate at the bow.
the shape is a question: do you want this kept, or do you want it easy? sometimes a knot is for the going, not the holding.
— call this one back by its tail and it comes.