Cézanne at Aix

And the mountain : each day

Immobile like fruit. Unlike, also

Because irreducible, because

Neither a component of the delicious

And therefore questionable,

Nor distracted (as the sitter)

By his own pose and, therefore,

Doubly to be questioned : it is not

Posed. It is. Untaught

Unalterable, a stone bridgehead

To that which is tangible.

Because unfelt before. There

In its weathered weight

Its silence silences, a presence

Which does not present itself.