she paused
on the
periphery
of the silence
that he knew
naked
without
an easel
sine
the unmodulated pose,
a frequency received
and rendered by the artist
who can only record
skin rasped
by raking light
as if the nerves
that are close
to the surface
transmit the essential
meaning of silence
like crystal ringing
to a tap
love's
closeness
dances
along
the
tides