"Craft" is about the making of art, and it follows the process from the first idea to the finished piece. It begins with a vision of the end result, something that seems to grow from inside the maker. Then comes the struggle: wood and stone are stubborn, and they resist taking shape. Clay is pressed and turned until it becomes carved wings and "blue flame birds" that peck at our walls, a lively image that makes the objects feel almost alive.
The speaker seems full of admiration for this work. Making art means putting "thought and blood" into a song, so it costs the maker something real. The last lines turn toward us. The artist is "someone like us," ordinary, yet dreaming and seeing, and in the end "finding us." The mood is quiet, intense and warm. Art is hard labor, but it also reaches across to the people who meet it.