Eurydice behind Orpheus
Do spirits dress in spirit clothes and shoes?
Do spirit sandals make a sound when on
The road in night or are they too diffuse
Of spirit atoms? Spirits walk in dawn
When desperate. Pale clothes do not make sound,
No swishing in the sunrise. Trousers loose
On spirits, I imagine, worn around
Souls’ thighs, around leg hair, do not induce
The slightest whisper. Spirits cannot hear
Such whispering as the rubbing of the cloth
Might make. Mild spirit noises disappear
For us, as quiet as a midnight moth.
If spirits walk behind us in a cloak
Of silk, they make more silence than thin smoke.