A woman who thought she had reason to think • You have come in out of the shadow. • The room is full of conversations. • They are like eyes • They are out here only • They are going naked as day • Goodbye in good time to the body
Source: Bodily Presence: Words, Paintings, by W.H. Oliver and Anne Munz. Wellington: BlackBerry Press, 1993
Electronic source: Bodily Presence: a TEI-conformant transcription
All poems © W. H. Oliver
You have come in out of the shadow.
You shine with your own light.
You bring your own dark.
You come and go as you please.
In your will is perfect freedom.
The god figures stand around
chunky as clay and obdurate as stone.
You have commanded their presence.
This space is your entire
domain and habitation.
The consummation will come
when the embodied dark like a cloud
clothes the long slopes of the sky.
Reclining figure, back view