how I
how i
how I peer
how I try
to
penetrate
the in-
terior
of your
face
to see
who is
living
in
there:
a man
or a
woman
?
?
Eighteen Squares of Light
at andrew's-- chadd's ford, pa Eighteen Squares of Light Pentimento n. the presence or emergence of earlier images, forms, or strokes that have been changed and painted over It’s suddenly a memory now, made possible because of the windows behind me, that a car has gone through its own mirror, emerging a fraction of a second later, the way every reflection figures in the light of redundancy and glass. Imagine this: the second square in from the left of the sash, second row up, seated and solid between the unmachined muntin coped by hand in around 1810, the glass has seen and been seen through for these last two hundred and more years: bird and person and bear and doe and fox and boys and girls going off and coming home from all those wars and houses that rise and that fall down into the open cellars of themselves, soothing the sore throats of the neighborhood where old windows and na...
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