Talking of poetry, hauling the books br arm-full to the table where the heads br bend or gaze upward, listening, reading aloud, br talking of consonants, elision, br caught in the how, oblivious of why: br I look in your face, Jude, br neither frowning nor nodding, br opaque in the slant of dust-motes over the table: br a presence like a stone, if a stone were thinking br What I cannot say, is me. For that I came.