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Dressing Table -- To the “Woman reading at a dressing table” painted by Matisse (1919) 2 bottles of perfume Fragrance of different colors, fragrance In the gray mirror, a woman from black-and-white movie Three-quarter time, intense music, music Foreground of a curtain spread thick Background of a transparent silk curtain, which is half open The book spread on her lap also Note on the Muse: This ..

Conversation with a Video Lens You are A virtual reality Well soaked with dense fragrance over a convex lens Lying sideways staying still, staying still Peaceful in the dark, you are Inside the lens Darkness is moving wholly Although not knowable whether a boy or a girl A little child is gazing at me Eyes of a puppy With both hands and legs Of gorgeous fins on a dancing goldfish, you are © Ryang..

Translation (1949) -- William Carlos Williams There is no distinction in the encounter, Sweet there is no grace of perfume to the rose but from us, which we give it by our loving performance. Love is tasteless but for the delicate turn of our caresses. By them the violet winds its word of love, no mere scent but a word spoken, a unique caress. That is the reason I wake before d..