doubting thomas wished to touch his lord
—tables, trees, stones, etc.—
the sugar as tasting, the stone as touchable:
persuasive adjectives are the controls of ingression &
a control is necessarily the control of progress.
instances of “smell and a pat” reminds a dog
—roughly, the body or part of the body—
of their embeddedness in all-embracing fact,
the testimony of sense or memory, my dream of
hovering, this specious present.
