113.
I'll know the question when the
answer speaks
if you say so darling I only hear the
organ
green and white the monks’ church at
St. Gall
remarkable country for being left
alone
whoever told you there are
alternatives
remember pennies not made of copper
remember the wolf in the driveway
mockingbird on the drainpipe
I have tried to deal with everything
give every weather its place in
history
for I was Waterloo and Austerlitz
Prince Andrei dreaming by his horse’s
hoof.
114.
Your money or your life enough of
meaning
I crossed the polished lobby to the
elevators
no one I knew could live in such a place
and so I rose through bronze doors to
family problems
my own estate the sky above Manhattan
and I owned Brooklyn too and east
beyond
but not out west over the river
Jersey and America
the sky belongs to me I say and on it
I take my stand no one else can judge
or smite me
though sometimes someone else will
touch my hand
and then the sky bears witness to my
purity
purity of meaning everything in this
single touch.
