You want to read

my body of work.

There is no body.

There are just

parts: neck,

shoulder,

hip, calf.

 

Parts do not

make a body.

Parts attached

make a body.

So what

is in between?

 

There is a

Chinese word –

liú bái –

which you say

as though asking

a question.

It means

to leave blank.

 

A space, a pause,

a moment. Not idle

but waiting

for a connection made

 

by an eye,

by an ear,

by a heart.

 

Hand, but no

holding.

 

Spirit, but no

song.

 

Pen, but no

poem.

 

Yet.