A VARIANT PHASE

See this avatar take on the day;

that well-dressed agent

on my behalf.

See how she moves

between the backdoor

and the garden gate.

Joints engage, limbs propel

her in a forward motion. See

how she . . . carries on.

She’s smooth she is,

that one enrobed

in the other.

The one who shows

you this, but not that.

A sleight of hand,

a trick with light, a bit

of familiar smoke screen.

If I could embody her,

minus the division— oh, what a fullness

there would be.

It would not take

some ambitious God

to create her every day.

This incarnation of robotic

proportions. See her waver

at the changing light,

so soon inside the evening

door materializes a woman

of other means.