image of glass on the wall between doors, which is outside the stream of thought (being) present

the moment she answers the phone, person the father calls the next morning knowing she is awake

in the painting (unconscious) the first of whose figures appears to be thinking “I am dreaming”

feeling that way about such a person (intuitive) as kneeling down beside her in a form of thought,

object present in the sense that she can touch him or look at the picture a second time, watercolor

the daughter paints driving along the coast to meet someone (conjecture) under certain circumstances

motion of trees against a blue sky, white rose on the neighbor’s wall not in focus at that distance

possibly literal, as a woman walking in from the left isn’t expected (deviation), glimpse of bird

in a straight line (emphasis) as the man leans into a curve below which slate of current moving

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Stephen Ratcliffe's recent books of poetry include REAL (Avenue B, 2007), Portraits & Repetition (The Post-Apollo Press, 2002) and SOUND/(system) (Green Integer, 2002). Listening to Reading, a book of essays on contemporary experimental poetry, was published by SUNY Press (2000). He lives in Bolinas and teaches at Mills College in Oakland.