History Lesson
Harbor an odd axiom:
winds ruffle in the chorus;
to tidy philosophy the chestnut drawers are labeled
it would take one glass eye near the end
when the sedimented air does not clear.
Define a convergence by what the blur keeps
moving toward, an awakening distance—
the unblinking back of a wrinkled white dress
only a dissolving frame allows this sharper field:
the unsweatered variables, the no and the yes
