Theory

I am what is around me.

Women understand this.
One is not duchess
A hundred yards from a carriage.
These, then, are portraits:
A black vestibule;
A high bed sheltered by curtains.

These are merely instances.

Wallace Stevens, Ficção Suprema: Poemas, Luísa Maria Campos (tradução e prefácio), Assírio & Alvim, 1991.