here the line and air does
perhaps begin its final gasp
clinching couplets in asymmetry
life as genre generates the poem
a poem in the first
the first the first
the first forms of air
do perhaps begin the line
the forms generate breath
the central event divides
form breaks from
soul except equal
in a way ends preceding
with a less emphatic pause
the two lines arranged
bodies with life and air
“Reader!” there it was
bodies symmetrically