Today,
while on the train:
I saw a youngwoman whose face seemed as though she could have been hewed by spirits from wood
sanded in so many steps that all separation of grain and splinter melted into a consistent hue -
and rubbed with oil so that she shone.
And I found myself almost-despairing that I was not alone...
and that I had no tears...
so that I could weep the pleasure of the seeing.
while on the train:
I saw a youngwoman whose face seemed as though she could have been hewed by spirits from wood
sanded in so many steps that all separation of grain and splinter melted into a consistent hue -
and rubbed with oil so that she shone.
And I found myself almost-despairing that I was not alone...
and that I had no tears...
so that I could weep the pleasure of the seeing.