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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
Goodbye in good time to the body
gone home to the bright dark where
it has been heading all through
long days in the light and loving
the glow and the glitter and yet
glad enough in the end to get back
if that's where it is to the void
the goddess inhabits if that's
where she has come from and if
that is what she is up to.
Standing figure, back view : three Venuses