"Speak

If you can

Speak

Phyllis- not neo-classic,
The girl's name is Phyllis-

Coming home from her first job
On the bus in the bare civic interior
Among those people, the small doors
Opening on the night at the curb

Her heart, she told me, suddenly tight with happiness-

So small a picture,
A spot of light on a curb, it cannot demean us

...

'In these explanations it is presumed that an experiencing
subject is one occasion of a sensitive reaction to an actual
world.'

the rain falls
that had not been falling
and it is the same world"

George Oppen, On Being Numerous

THANKS to you P