You are sitting, naked from the waist up, wearing only pajama bottoms, in your garret, on the narrow bench that serves as your bed, with a book. Raymond Aron’s Eighteen Lectures on Industrial Society

At first the darkness sometimes forms the vague outline of an ace of spades: from a point in front of you two lines recede, diverge and, after tracing a vast curve, turn back towards you.

Manifest from the imperceptible
convexity of the eye
—that by which we know the earth is round—
eternity is circular
but flat

On this beautiful Saturday in May
Sophie has married Michel
and Michel has married Sophie