It is dificult to read. The page is dark.

Yet he knows what it is that he expects.

The page is blank or a frame without a glass

Or a glass that is empty when he looks.

The greenness of night lies on the page and goes

Down deeply in the empty glass.

Look, realist, not knowing what you expect.

The green falls on you as you look,

Falls on and makes and gives, even a speech.

And you think that that is what you expect,

That elemental parent, the green night,

Teaching a fusky alphabet.