The stillness is a spell. How can such a weight float

like that above the couch? How it makes apparent

the inscrutability of symmetry, its requiring of nothing. The bronze

gleams softly in the little light. It is not a play.

It is not a response. The breast is the phallus is the breast is the phallus.

Tender and absolute they have cancelled time, determined all

confession. There is no need to look at anything else.

Questions confirm their serene tyranny, the silent assumption

of all the nerves’ thrillings to the world. This doubleness a single

gate you will always be passing through.