  Theories with a pole in the kinetic term have been used to great effect in
studying inflation, owing to their quantum stability and attractor properties.
We explore the use of such pole kinetic terms in dark energy theories, finding
an interesting link between thawing and freezing models, and the possibility of
enhanced plateaus with ``superattractor''-like behavior. We assess the
observational viability of pole dark energy, showing that simple models can
give dark energy equation of state evolution with $w(z)<-0.9$ even for
potentials that could not normally achieve this easily. The kinetic term pole
also offers an interesting perspective with respect to the swampland criteria
for such observationally viable dark energy models.

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics;High Energy Physics - Theory