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31 Standing by my bed In gold sandals Dawn that very moment awoke me ——SAPPHO I. — “ PURELY VISUAL”/LEUR RÔLE EST DONC PUREMENT SPECTACUL AIRE. MATISSE, JAZZ OR SHE FELL VERY SLOWLY TAKE: DRIVING through a pattern of girders and shadows 33 II. ” 34 GALLERY MATISSE, THE PIANO LESSON —“architectonic”: I read that—the shadowed stage left of his son’s face, a précis inverting the shaft of green (sunlight through a window) repeating the pyramid metronome. He’s not as young as he looks, the lad. Tick, tock.

Handle—as object; role of the; its shadow. [hand : envelope : letter : hand] 44 Action, once removed? ) Then again, mine . . Her gift—“in return”—from the first decade of our thirty-four-year correspondence, a selection of my letters now ‘returned to sender’ carefully mounted in a cord-tied, brocade-covered album, each in its opened, original envelope. - to 15-cent) stamps. Re-read with—Vermeer, maybe Hopper? Richter—fascinated apprehension, proceeding from (as Preface) a few notes from high school “still” folded for passing and set—like the envelopes—in photo corners: to unseat, unfold, hold one for reading.

Has painted the woman gazing, and background, her entire surroundings . . (save himself and that [unsaved] half)—a thought. ) 37 KOI (I) was doing my best to see them, what with the reflection 38 KOAN “Everyone knows the sound of two hands clapping. ” COINED ‘Violinisting’: coined. Then I leant on it. The practice of askew until skewed feels like comfort (“a learned thing”). Restful? Zzzz—then I slept on it—sawed, a swaying (pitched), tuning fork, metronome . . 39 awoke in the dark. Certainly electronic; I tried to listen in triplets or randomness—tick, tock—the lyric, based on a pendulum.