STARTLING AFFILIATION
The startling affiliation is time and its
passage. You are sitting at the water's edge,
by the rockwall with the benches, looking out.
The bright sunlight delineates the day, carving
objects from light. As if you were back at home,
somewhere, and sitting on your father's curb,
perhaps, listening to some hollow Hallelujah -
your eyes are rapt, and both focused out.
It seems as if some message of old has
just been dropped from out of the mail -
Jack Teagarden, Jack Benny, Lady Day,
or someone from that era - with an
infernal cast of judges that has
been watching you all the time.
been watching you all the time.
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