b o d y

Look closely at the letters. Can you see,
entering (stage right), then floating full,
then heading off -- so soon --
how like a little kohl-rimmed moon
o plots her course from b to d

as y, unanswered, knocks at the stage door?
Looked at too long, words fail,
phase out. Ask, now that body shines
no longer, by what light you learn these lines
and what the b and d stood for.

(fgr)