Vertigo to Eros Turn back the white distance O nervous maps! a sudden figure etched in the retina: fitful angel snipping sutures, stitching bizzaro costumes, near-sighted finery sways the eye's mind, pendant on a chain. Deft skeleton, such cargo -- flesh, my friend, brain's machinery going everywhere, a fresh-washed face: elegy for the living -- heavy furrows weave the landscape. O my el greco! skein of sad fictions, afflictions like bees to a bright aster bed. On this island, failing eyesight undresses the sea. Broken light narrows, pinpoints barebosom working out tensions strung between birdbones. Daily renaissance, brush-strokes distorted by the glass, schoolchildren's eyes turn on a dime, imprint the world. Your own peculiar surface elongated, pressed to crevices, cloud formations.