They say that hearing is the first of the senses to come & the last to leave. From birth to death, you hear: this may be true. But once you stood, pajama'd, in a mid- night bathroom and watched your eyes watch your eyes in the mirrored light of that sun-hot bulb and heard nothing. For that moment---you will never know how long you stood there---you heard nothing. (You felt nothing.) & that was enough.