John, it is a poem. It's a performance. I think the best poems are performances. They should not lose anything when spoken aloud.
I read this as a miniature play in five acts. It has two voices. I hear them clearly. It's so spare, and beautiful, and the words do nothing to disturb the profound silence out of which they grow.
I love this kind of writing. A play for voices (like Dylan Thomas).
Tenderness, calm before the . . . unknowable.
Cally
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