III
My Friend Annabel Lee
MY FRIEND Annabel Lee never fails to fascinate and confound me.
Much as she gives, there is in her infinitely more to get.
My relation with her never goes on, and it never goes back. It leads nowhere. She and I stop together in the midst of our situation and look about us. And what we see in the looking about is all and enough to consider.
And considering, I write of it.