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Under the title `Quiet`, the speaker watches greef drain into care and sees the animal self as the place where hurt briefly gathers.

What stands out is the shift from immagination to embodiment. The page suggests that pain becomes real not in fantasy but in the animal condition the speaker cannot escape.

'Quiet' watches feeling turn into self-abandonment: 'Watch greef run out to care,' as if grief drains into caretaking, while 'The worst of your immagination / holds you / There as the animal you are.' The body is reduced to a creature suffering 'For a second to hurt / as hurt by,' and the close names a chosen emptiness - 'Yet you let your insides / lay away / For no reason why,' numbness laid down without justification, quiet as a kind of surrender.