arrogant eyes established dominance voice trembling on the verge of coherence deferential silence Its faintest ramification the raw whiteness (of her body) impactive scrutiny Something tells me ____ Her body hovered delicately on the last edge of (despair?) my eye moved quickly face of a fading prettiness In another hour the horns of motors began to come out to determine what share was his of our local heavens. Something was making him nibble at the edge of (despair??) extended fully lengthwise at her end of the sofa standing with his legs apart And/as so it happened that I bought a doz. volumes on banking & they stood on my shelf in gold like new money, promising to unfold the shining secrets that only Midas & Morgan knew. fine health pulled down out of the young breath-giving air casually conferred on me I had a dog and an old Dodge and a Finnish woman, who made my bed and cooked breakfast and muttered Finnish wisdom to herself over the electric stove. I went out to the country alone take a house together what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest heightened sensitivity to the promises of life Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes, but after a certain point I don’t care what it’s founded on. an intimate revelation was quivering on the horizon has opened up many curious natures to me