Getting in above the clavicle

for Elizabeth Avedon

Trace an arc to tether 
fact and feeling, 
and find what it may hold.

Man in blue linen 

  unknown

Leica M-3 

  Ernst Leitz

Danza Alla Tedesca, Op. 130, Ludwig van Beethoven

  Alban Berg Quartet, EMI, 1989©

François Truffaut 

  David Levine, NYRB, 1990©