​b o d y

Look closely at the letters. Can you see, entering (stage right), then floating full, then heading off—so soon— how like a little kohl-rimmed moon o plots her course from b to d —as y, unanswered, knocks at the stage door? Looked at too long, words fail, phase out. Ask, now that body shines no longer, by what light you learn these lines and what the b and d stood for.