The failing kidney is a portal — the leaky heart valve, the clot, the lesion in the brain: All doors unlocking themselves. Likewise outside the body: the razorblade, The bottle of barbiturates, the utility pole beside the curve in the icy highway, The rifle over the mantelpiece (it must go off). He understands the radio On the shelf by the bath in particular as a crystal hatchway, hermetically unsealing, Leading, after a prelude of unspectacular fireworks, to a region beyond The invention of the hinge and the hasp, where jamb and lintel are less Than ugly rumors, and nobody has a key to worry over, wear out, Misplace, twist off, or jangle obsessively.