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The speaker describes a woman through music and dreams, then shifts to a first-person account of a troublesome river and arriving as a genius.

The speaker tries to describe war while kissing and a world gone at sunset. In the final section, the speaker claims genius for the self, rather than assigning that identity to the woman. Canceled phrases and the inserted don't leave parts of the relationship unresolved.

'No Way Of Stopping Her' describes a woman whose mind 'feels less than far, if not gone', with music 'always an accompanyment in her way of don't tell', and a crow that 'puts her back on land / Across the mountains and against the sea, is a long time,'. Later stanzas move through 'concrete santuary into tomestone silver night' and explaining 'while having a kiss what war is really like', before the speaker turns to himself: 'Watching how troublesome is the river I am' and 'Each time the world sees I've arrived as a genius'.

The woman is presented as unstoppable and drifting, while the speaker ends in self-assessment, pairing a claim of genius with a final handwritten phrase about 'sloppy thought' whose middle word is not legible. The long typed lines and heavy handwritten cancellations show the poem being reworked toward plainer statements, and the tone moves from dreamy description to wry self-portrait.