IN ABSENTIA


Posoda, dramata . . .

The articulation of the need to explain

I pitched inside to Mike Damison--

It was a strategy:

The photograph showed some sky to ground lightning

Second base is an ascetic experience

Reflex and meditation

Right field is for zoologists

In the back, way back, behind the discarded bleechers

Somebody reading a newspaper--

His daughter shaving her legs at the artesian well

Fish rise in the forgotten pond