Three Stanzas Containing a Theme
I.As all the women in my life had done it,with rings through both lobes,then others creeping up the curvature of the ear,a crescent made of ellipses.But beauty in the variation, too,with dogged studs like stars in one(An allusion to celestial bodies is recalled),and another, more coy, closer to its master.They were all as old as …