- four women sit at the dining room table talking about the world
- and the world is the dining room table about which they speak.
- the world is small
- and the women are large
- and they are sitting exactly as if they were directions.
- but they do not know it
- and I do not mean to suggest that they are decorations.
- the light shining over them
- causing their skin to glow
- is not the moon
- which neither waxes nor wanes because of women
- nor does it rise to reflect them.
- these women sit around
- under artificial light one switched on
- and their voices undulate and rise, undulate and fall,
- and tonight the world does not need to be bigger than this,
- a place with women, tables, lights outside and in,
- and their voices.