What Is a Person

capable of feeling

while in contact with another?

I look at the red-tiled roofs outside,

at all the angles

facing the white-blue cloudless sky

like the creases in Bellini’s angel’s

silver-blue dress, Tintoretto’s white one

that’s practically transparent in his

Annunciazione at the San Rocco

— cloth complex as thought!

Then the bells start, flood the void.