5.16.2021

to be swayed by everything

Suddenly she steps, wrapped into the wind, 
brightly into brightness, as if singled out, 
while now the room as if cut to fit
fills the door behind her

darkly like the background of a cameo, 
and lets a glimmer through around its edges; 
and you think the evening hadn't come
until she stepped out, and on the railing 

set forth just a little of herself,
just her hands,—to be completely light:
as if passed on by the rows of houses
to the heavens, to be swayed by everything.

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