when sight begins to fail

[ when sight begins to fail ]

every detail is left undramatized. Posing
in a bath full of water
and result is oddly               detached
from softness, pretense
from time, scene
from eye. Her proportions are wrong.
But it is not comforting. Have we not studied figure,
have we not experienced sunlight. Or shadow. Her un-
concern
takes the theme
she holds on her lap.
Equally unconventional a calla
enclosed
(in) swathe white, a
spathe. Venation on which light on
which shade flickeror fade; the bather is unaware,
or pathos would di
-ssolve dark, brooding
    colors into fleeting       ness into
                                                              exuberant beauty.

Objectivity achieved              from contemplation.
Substantial feel              for each figure is preference.
Every detail              left in great
areas of contrasting                blue
brought into the eye as a         lull          against breath.
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