Magasins du Louvre + 

All the virgin eyes in the world are made of glass + 

Long lines of boxes + 

Of dolls + 

Propped against banisters + 

Walls and pillars + 

Huddled on shelves + 

And composite babies with arms extended + 

Hang from the ceiling + 

Beckoning + 

Smiling + 

In a profound silence + 

Which the shop walker left trailing behind him + 

When he ambled to the further end of the gallery + 

To annoy the shop-girl + 

All the virgin eyes in the world are made of glass + 

They alone have the effrontery to + 

Stare through the human soul + 

Seeing nothing + 

Between parted fringes + 

One cocotte wears a bowler hat and a sham camellia + 

And one an iridescent boa + 

For there are two of them + 

Passing + 

And the solicitous mouth of one is straight + 

The other curved to a static smile + 

They see the dolls + 

And for a moment their eyes relax + 

To a flicker of elements unconditionally primeval + 

And now averted + 

Seek each otherвАЩs + 

surreptitiously + 

To know if the other has seen + 

While mine are inextricably entangled with the pattern of the carpet + 

As eyes are apt to be + 

In their shame + 

Having surprised a gesture that is ultimately intimate + 

All the virgin eyes in the world are made of glass. + 