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
They are like eyes
caught in the act of closing.
They will be wholly themselves
when the shadows meet again.
If you narrow your own
you begin to go with them
into a space lit by new stars
and in that chancy
ambiguous world you would not
know where you had in the end
ended up or even
who it was that had in a
manner of speaking arrived.
Figure with ancestral Venuses: red ground