We have a handsomeness of the sartorial kind
although the clothing's invisible beyond an unturned collar;
a concentrating brow as of one thinking
maybe in a quiet place or garden which leads out
from itself, and down and round to effect
an whole transfiguration look
as in side mirrors
and produce the suffering face of Christ. One sees,
at first, a single eye, and perhaps just
one nostril; the mouth
a reef in a wide and shallow sea,
a separate ear; and then the complement:
possession and the looks are gone;
all is known as delusion
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