Movement: Eyes

• Since retinae require change
• the eyes flicker
• in Brownian movement
• without pattern but
• keeping patterns in the mind.
• A still image,
• otherwise, would disappear. The brain
• would forget, desire
• would yawn, habits
• would grow, a cataract
• like an icecap would creep
• across the gel-like lens. Make it
• now, rods and cones firing—renew;
• renew; I love you,
• not still, but again.
• 26 December 1984